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After five tries, Pomeranz gets 1st Sox win
- Updated: August 15, 2016
CLEVELAND — When Red Sox manager John Farrell walked out to the mound in the eighth inning, left-hander Drew Pomeranz didn’t want to give him the baseball.
“You have to be a competitor,” Pomeranz said after Boston’s 3-2 win over Cleveland on Monday. “You never want to give up the ball. If you are ready to give up the ball anytime he comes out there, you are defeated. You can’t ever be defeated.”
After going 0-2 with a 5.26 ERA in five starts since being acquired from the Padres on July 14, Pomeranz nailed down his first win in a Red Sox uniform. And to top it off, he did so by going into uncharted territories — the eighth inning.
“Especially the first time I have gone into the eighth in my career,” Pomeranz. “It was kind of a personal goal of mine to go deeper in games. Finally got in there, but still a lot of improvement. … It almost gave me a second wind. I was getting excited to go out and pitch in the eighth.”
Pomeranz spun a career-high 7 2/3 innings, allowing just two runs on five hits while recording six strikeouts compared to two …
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