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- Updated: June 1, 2016
BALTIMORE — Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts said he wasn’t thinking of trying to hit his fourth homer of the game when he stepped into the batter’s box in the ninth inning.
“I was more concerned with just getting a fourth hit,” he said after Tuesday night’s 6-2 victory over the Orioles at Camden Yards. “A home run would have been nice, but I was just trying to get another hit at that point. They were still a grand slam away, so I was thinking baserunner and then we can score a couple of more runs.”
Betts, who grounded out to second leading off the ninth, opened the game with a home run, added a three-run shot in the second and a solo homer in the seventh for his first three-homer game. He’s also the first Red Sox leadoff hitter to go deep three times in one game since at least 1913.
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Betts also impressed in the field with a dazzling diving catch in right-center field to rob Paul Janish in the seventh. As far as …
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