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- Updated: May 22, 2016
BOSTON — The Red Sox made Danny Salazar work and then they made him pay. Powered by another big day from David Ortiz, Boston picked up a 5-2 victory over the Indians on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park to win the three-game series.
Ortiz drove in three runs and collected four hits, including his 514th home run, to help the Red Sox chase Salazar after 109 pitches and 4 1/3 innings. Jackie Bradley Jr. extended his hitting streak to 27 games with a single to right that knocked Salazar out in the fifth.
“It’s pretty special,” Bradley said about the Red Sox’s offensive surge. “Guys who are swinging the bat are relentless. I think it just goes to say that every single person’s buying in, sticking with their approach and trying to be a tough out.”
Needing a triple for a cycle, Ortiz sent a pitch from Austin Adams to the center-field triangle in the eighth. The crowd roared with anticipation of a possible three-base hit, but the baseball rattled around the wall and bounced into the stands for his second ground-rule double.
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“I wish he would’ve retired last year,” Indians manager Terry Francona quipped.
Salazar (4-3, 2.32 ERA) toiled through 40 pitches in the first, marking the most he had thrown in a single frame in his career. The early troubles paved the way for a two-run opening inning for the Red Sox, who took the lead for good, 3-2, when Ortiz delivered a run-scoring double in the second.
“A 40-pitch first inning. That’s hard,” Francona said. “Part of it was he wasn’t commanding. Part of it is that lineup is, from top to bottom, about as dangerous as you’re going to see. Whether they sustain it or not, I don’t know, but when you’re catching them at a time like this, in that streak that they’re in, they take some pretty good swings.”
Aside from a two-run outburst in the second, Cleveland could not get much going against Red Sox righty Rick Porcello. In that inning, Porcello (7-2, 3.47 ERA) found himnself in a bases-loaded jam with two outs before surrendering a two-run single to Jason Kipnis. That was all the damage done against Porcello, who struck out five and scattered five hits in 5 2/3 innings.
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