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2015 Season - Game 81

Posted on July 7, 2014 at 09:36 PM.

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THE BOSTON GLOBE (RED SOX DYNASTY REPORT)

BOSTON, MA - The Red Sox, now within reach of 1st in the AL East, would find itself in the middle of dogfight for the division lead. With Baltimore in town, and also in reach of 1st, every game would count toward defending their title. Chris Archer would start against a familiar foe in Miguel Gonzalez, but as luck would have it Gonzalez rarely does well against Boston.

Today's game was less a pitchers duel and more of a great pitching performance propping up an impotent offense. It took five inning for Boston to score, an Ortiz solo-HR, and it started to look like another Archer gem wouldn't go to waste. Boston tried to make it 2-0 when Mookie Betts decided to make an easy triple into an inside-the-park HR but ended up with a 8-6-2 out instead.

Baltimore pulled one back in the 7th with a Nelson Cruz solo-HR and Gonzalez concluded his day with a scoreless seventh. After 7IP Gonzalez only had 2K compared to Archer's 14, but the score was still 1-1. Archer finished up the 8th with two more K to bring his total to 16, a stunning total of 36K in 16IP over has last two starts.

Swihart is starting a pretty good AL ROY campaign.

Luckily for Archer Blake Swihart and Jackie Bradley Jr. would combine to set him up for a win after a Bradley single brought in Swihart from second. Uehara would come in and finish off Baltimore to give Archer his 7th win and get the Red Sox one step closer to defending their division crown.

Baltimore Orioles at Boston Red Sox
Jun 23, 2015	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Baltimore (42-40)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	0
Boston (43-38)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	2	7	0
W: Archer (7-3) L: O'Day (5-7) S: Uehara (12)