Roman Anthony forces extra innings, but Padres get walkoff win in 10 innings

Boston Globe

3 days ago

That ended a dramatic series of late-inning goings-on, including the Red Sox failing to advance their own automatic runner in the top of the 10th.
After the Red Sox struck out 10 times in four innings against Jeremiah Estrada, Adrian Morejon, and Mason Miller, the flamethrowing blockbuster trade-deadline acquisition from the Athletics, they finally cracked the Padres' bullpen in the ninth.
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Roman Anthony blasted a double — on Robert Suarez's 99-miles-per-hour fastball on the upper edge of the strike zone — to bring in Ceddanne Rafaela as the tying run.
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Aroldis Chapman retired the meat of the San Diego order — Manny Machado, Jackson Merrill, and Bogaerts — on 10 pitches to send the game to the 10th.
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Lucas Giolito bent for most of his 4⅔ innings, then broke without recording another out.
He concluded his grind of an outing with four consecutive two-out walks in the fifth inning. The last two, to bottom-half hitters Ryan O'Hearn and Laureano, came with the bases loaded, forcing in the tying and go-ahead runs. Giolito threw 32 pitches in the frame, just 12 strikes.
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Steven Matz entered and induced a flyout from Jake Cronenworth, stranding Giolito's three base runners and salvaging Giolito's final line: five hits, four runs, six walks.
Giolito's free passes were double his previous season-high (and as many as he had in his past five starts combined).
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Throughout, Giolito worked around a lot of hard contact from the Padres and benefitted from several highlight-reel plays by his defenders. Among them: right fielder Wilyer Abreu's sliding grab of Jackson Merrill's smoked line drive in the third inning, and second baseman Ceddanne Rafaela's diving stop of Laureano's would-be single in the fourth.
San Diego had five hard-hit balls turn into outs in the first four innings.
The only batter actually able to drive a run in early was Bogaerts, who hit a home run in the second — the first hit of his life against the Red Sox — and an RBI single in the third.
Xander Bogaerts celebrates after hitting a solo home run in the second inning, his first career hit against his former team.
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In his return from the injured list, Padres righthander Michael King was not sharp, allowing two runs, four hits, and two walks across two-plus innings.
King — a Warwick, R.I., native who went to Boston College — exited after 57 pitches, four fewer than he threw in his only minor league rehabilitation start. He had missed the previous 11 weeks because of a shoulder injury.
Kickstarting Red Sox rallies in both the first and third: Alex Bregman, who doubled into the left-field corner in both innings. The first time, Jarren Duran brought him in with a single. Later, Bregman was caught in a rundown between third base and the plate, but evaded the Padres long enough for Sox runners to end up at second and third. Both went on to score.
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The Red Sox could have had more early but did not capitalize on a second-inning, bases-loaded, one-out situation, other than to push King's pitch count (34 in that inning alone). That chance ended when Anthony, who had been ahead in the count, 3-1, whiffed at a changeup below the strike zone.
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