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2016 Season - Game 11

Posted on September 11, 2014 at 10:17 PM.

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THE BOSTON GLOBE (RED SOX DYNASTY REPORT)

ST. LOUIS, MO - The Red Sox were on the road tonight with a potentially tricky game against the Cardinals. St. Louis is good on paper but they have started the season 2-7 and go to Joe Kelly to halt the slide. Chris Archer would not be looking forward to facing Oscar Taveras, but with a great defense behind him things wouldn't be so bad. Jackie Bradley Jr. has been suffering from a sore hamstring so Garin Cecchini started in LF with Mookie Betts moving to RF and Rico Berroa at CF.

Kelly and Archer pitched very well, with Kelly getting easy grounders and Archer striking out batters. Xander Bogaerts broke the game open in the 3rd with a 2R-HR after Chris Owings snagged 2nd. The game was mostly quiet with Kelly and Archer pitching very well through the 6th when Kelly stepped out.

Owings and the Red Sox defense looks solid.

Cecchini made it 3-0 in the 7th with a solo-HR, his first major league HR, and St. Louis didn't have much fight left in them after that. Archer pitched through the 8th, finishing the game with 12K and only a single BB and hit allowed. Through his first three starts Archer has really managed to cut down on the walks, he allowed the most in baseball last year, and this might be a real boost.

Leonys Bravo came in to close the game and flashed 'bad' Bravo by walking Nate Shierholtz with four pitches and then allowing an RBI double to Eduardo Nunez. Blake Swihart went to the mound for a meeting, which must have worked because Bravo struck out the next two batters to finish the game.

Boston Red Sox at St. Louis Cardinals
Apr 11, 2016	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Boston (7-4)	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	8	0
St. Louis (2-8)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0
W: Archer (2-0) L: Kelly (0-1) S: Bravo (2)