"I was just trying to get something to the outfield for the sac fly and got it far enough that it went over their heads", he said.
Pedroia's groundout and Benintendi's RBI single made it 4-3 in the third. After leaving runners stranded in the 10th and 11th, it was Benintendi who got it done before the night got any later. He has three home runs and 10 RBIs. He has been up and down this season and is just two starts removed from not making it out of the third inning, so it is hard to be too confident in him. A good test will come Tuesday, when Lively and the Phils travel to Fenway Park to take on the Red Sox.
The Philadelphia Phillies will look to bounce back after dropping the first two games of this series, pushing their losing streak to seven games.
"That group continues to be put with their backs against the wall", said Red Sox manager John Farrell. Fernando Abad threw two scoreless innings of relief, getting the win to improve to 2-0 this season.
Howie Kendrick had three hits, went 3-for-4 on stolen bases and committed two errors, and Tommy Joseph had a two-run single for the last-place Phillies (21-41). He gave up four runs in the first inning and another in the sixth.
Will David Price rebound from a frightful start against the Yankees with a win over the Phillies tonight at 7:10PM ET? When you've got all the top players on the team, when somebody gets cold, the other guy gets hot.
"We played them tough, had chances to win", Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said. Given the success he had his last time out, limiting the Orioles to one run over seven innings, this just appears to be a blip on the radar and not something more serious related to his arm health.
Andrew Benintendi drew an RBI walk in the first, Vazquez hit an RBI double in the second and, after Price gave both runs back on a very long home run to Aaron Altherr, Mitch Moreland put the Red Sox up, 3-2, with a solo shot to dead center in the bottom of the third.
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Martic is ranked 290th but she took just 49 minutes to beat the Latvian and match her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament. Reigning champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia is also through after beating Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain 7-6, 6-1, 6-3.
"He's not all the way there yet, obviously with the number of hits he surrendered here tonight", said Farrell. "He didn't start nitpicking, he wasn't afraid to throw strikes, came right after the hitters". Red Sox LHP David Price pitches at home for the first time since last week's obscenity-laced tirade aimed at the media in NY when he faces rookie RH Ben Lively in Game 2 of the four straight games between the teams Tuesday night.
Because it ended the game, Major League Baseball rules score the hit as a single, not a ground-rule double. But when he did enter, he had one great play in the field - a diving snare of a Daniel Nava liner - and one bad, a booted routine grounder right after.
The Red Sox loaded the bases with one out in the first but only got one run out of it.
Eickhoff gave up four runs (three earned) in six innings and was in line for the win when Ramirez delivered his ninth homer of the season.
Pulling a home run off reliever Joaquin Benoit, formerly of the Tigers, in the eighth inning to tie the game at Fenway Park - that's about as Ortiz-esque as it gets.
"It was kind of a weird situation because I knew how much time I had", Benintendi said. Brian Johnson will start game three, and is 2-0 with a 3.44 ERA and 16 strikeouts this season.
"It's nice but it's always better to win", Lively said.
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