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- Updated: August 14, 2016
BOSTON — Stay calm. Stay relaxed. That’s what Brad Ziegler kept trying to tell himself as he came into a pressurized situation against the team that traded him to the Red Sox a month ago.
The bases were full of D-backs with nobody out in the eighth as Ziegler came running in from the bullpen to try to rescue Matt Barnes, who had walked three straight batters.
Ten pitches later — and 10 strikes later — Ziegler had given the Red Sox a huge lift in a 6-3 win.
Ziegler struck out Rickie Weeks Jr. on on a sinker and two curves. Yasmany Tomas went down on three sinkers and a curve. Only Chris Owings could salvage the inning for Arizona. Instead, Ziegler made him look feeble on a curve, a sinker and another curve to end the inning.
The Fenway crowd roared with appreciation for a job well done. And Barnes felt like hugging his teammate.
“Yeah, he gave me a big hug in the dugout, and then he gave me another one up here [in the clubhouse],” Ziegler said. “You could tell he was pretty tired when he went back out there, and he was fighting, grinding. A lot of guys in the bullpen are fatigued. You know, it’s August, so there isn’t …
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