December 26, 2018 9:41 PM PST
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Rich Hill had just set down Eduardo Nunez swinging for the first out of the
seventh inning.Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had seen enough. Walking to the
mound, he signaled to the bullpen and Hill was gone. “Big mistake!” President
Donald Trump tweeted.It was the beginning of another troubled outing for Los
Angeles‘ bullpen in the World Series.Six relievers combined to give up eight of
Boston’s nine runs over the final three innings in a 9-6 loss Saturday night
that sent the Dodgers to the brink of elimination for the second straight
year.“Watching the Dodgers/Red Sox final innings,” Trump tweeted. “It is amazing
how a manager takes out a pitcher who is loose & dominating through almost 7
innings, Rich Hill of Dodgers, and brings in nervous reliever(s) who get
shellacked. 4 run lead gone. Managers do it all the time, big mistake!”Roberts
responded, saying, “I don’t know how many Dodger games he’s watched. I don’t
think he’s privy to the conversation. That’s one man’s opinion.”Los Angeles
trails 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. Game 5 is Sunday at Dodger Stadium,
where the Dodgers lost to Houston in Game 7 a year ago.Informed of Trump’s
comments, Boston manager Alex Cora simply said, “Dave Roberts is a good
manager.”When he was told of the presidential tweet, a subdued Hill said, “I
didn’t read it.”Roberts and Hill talked in the sixth, with the 38-year-old
left-hander telling his manager to keep an eye on him.“Right there, I know Rich
did everything he could, competed, left everything out there,” Roberts said.
“We’ve got to do a better job of picking him up.” Hill struck out seven and
walked three in 6 1/3 innings with one run and one hit. He is just the second
pitcher age 38 or older to post three World Series starts in which he’s allowed
just one earned
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including two last year. Roger Clemens holds the record with four.Scott
Alexander inherited a runner from Hill, who had issued a leadoff walk to Xander
Bogaerts. Alexander walked Brock Holt and Roberts was quick with the hook.“It
just didn’t work out the way we wanted,” Hill said. “We’ll move forward and
concentrate on Sunday.”The Dodgers turned to Ryan Madson, brought in from the
Nationals in August to bolster the ‘pen in high-leverage situations.It didn’t
work. Madson gave up a three-run homer to pinch-hitter Mitch Moreland, drawing
the Red Sox within 4-3.The Dodgers turned to Kenley Jansen in the eighth for the
second straight game.Bad move.The All-Star closer served up a one-out homer to
Steve Pearce that tied the game at 4-all.“We’re all disappointed,” Jansen said.
“We can’t question ourselves. It’s another day tomorrow. It’s not over until
it’s over.”Hours earlier, Jansen gave up Jackie Bradley Jr.’s tying homer in the
eighth inning of an epic Game 3, blowing his attempt at a six-out save in his
third major World Series failure in two years.But the bullpen rallied, with
eight relievers combining for 11 innings of five-hit ball in the longest World
Series game in history. They mostly shut down Boston’s powerful lineup and the
Dodgers eked out a 3-2, 18-inning victory in the 7-hour, 20-minute affair that
ended early Saturday. Converted starter Alex Wood got the win by pitching out of
trouble in the 18th after giving up a leadoff walk.Jansen struggled against
Houston a year ago in the World Series, too.He gave up a solo homer to Marwin
Gonzalez in Game 2 for his first blown save in the playoffs. That ended his
major league record streak of converting his first 12 postseason save chances.In
Game 5, he took the loss in a 10-inning defeat.The Dodgers ran through Dylan
Floro, Wood and Kenta Maeda in the ninth when the Red Sox exploded for five
runs, four of them with two outs. Floro gave up pinch-hitter Rafael Devers‘
go-ahead single with one out.“We have another chance,” Jansen said, “and we’ll
give it our best shot.”It might be their last. The New York Yankees suffered a
double loss on Sunday.The Yankees, heading for the American League wild card and
fighting to maintain home-field advantage for that game against the Oakland
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failed to finish off a sweep of the Baltimore Orioles, blowing a 3-0 lead and
losing, 6-3.Then, after the game, New York manager Aaron Boone revealed Didi
Gregorius suffered torn cartilage in his right wrist diving into home with the
run that clinched the Yankees’ return to the postseason.Article continues below
...The shortstop received a cortisone injection and reported improvement after
Sunday’s game.“Didi’s a great player and obviously I think everyone in this room
understands how important he is to our team,” Boone said after the game. “Kind
of an anchor for us defensively in the infield, and obviously what he brings
from the left side of the plate. So, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there,
but hopefully we get some good news here in a few days.” The most likely move
for the Yankees, who finished their home schedule Sunday and open a four-game
series against the Tampa Bay Rays Monday night in St. Petersburg, would be to
shift Gleyber Torres back to second base and play Neil Walker at second with
Gregorius out.Gregorius is batting .268, with a career-high 27 homers, 86 RBIs
and 10 stolen bases this season.“Well it feels a little bit better now,” he
said. “I know it happened yesterday during the game. I slid into home plate, my
right hand got stuck. We were celebrating everything was fine. I went home,
fine. I woke up this morning, it wasn’t feeling good. I came up here and we did
an MRI. It showed I had a small tear in the wrist.”The Yankees maintained their
1 1/2-game lead over the Oakland A’s for home field in the wild card as the A’s
lost to the Minnesota Twins in Oakland.The loss kept champagne on ice for the
A’s, and allows the Rays to live another day in their late-season chase for the
second wild card — the Oakland magic number remaining at 1.Blake Snell won his
21st game of the season and moved a step closer to the Rays’ second Cy Young
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Diego Castillo, with rookie Ryan Yarbrough, a 15-game winner, getting the bulk
of the innings.Monday is Luis Severino’s regular day but no starter had been
announced for the visitors, who missed a chance to go a season-high 37 games
over .500 Sunday.Snell joined David Price as the Rays’ only 20-game winners and
passed Price for most wins in a season. His ERA is down to 1.90 and he struck
out 11 in 6 2/3 scoreless innings Sunday.“I think he’s pretty much cemented his
case that he belongs not just in the (Cy Young) conversation, but right at the
top of the list,” Cash said.Said teammate Kevin Kiermaier: “If today wasn’t a
final nod, then I don’t know what is. The guy is just absolutely dominant.”The
Rays lead the season series with the Yankees 8-7, but have gone 5-1 against New
York at the Trop.Willie Adames missed Sunday’s game for Tampa Bay because of
illness and Kiermaier left the game after running into the wall in the eighth
inning — and is considered day-to-day.For the Yankees, Aaron Hicks, who had the
winning hit Saturday, fouled a ball off his ankle before getting the hit and was
rested Sunday.The Yankees have three possibilities to start the wild-card game
and will spend this week both trying to nail down the home field and getting
things in line.“We want to be at home,” said Boone.The Yankees and A’s split six
games this season, but the Yankees currently hold the tiebreaker for home field
because of their divisional record (39-30/35-35).Severino is 7-2 with a 3.06 ERA
lifetime against the Rays, 2-1 with a 3.43 in St. Petersburg. He is 2-1 against
Tampa Bay this season but was strafed by the Rays in July.Mallex Smith is
3-for-10 (.300) against Severino, but both Jesus Sucre and Joey Wendle are
1-for-9 (.111).
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Rich Hill had just set down Eduardo Nunez swinging for the first out of the
seventh inning.Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had seen enough. Walking to the
mound, he signaled to the bullpen and Hill was gone. “Big mistake!” President
Donald Trump tweeted.It was the beginning of another troubled outing for Los
Angeles‘ bullpen in the World Series.Six relievers combined to give up eight of
Boston’s nine runs over the final three innings in a 9-6 loss Saturday night
that sent the Dodgers to the brink of elimination for the second straight
year.“Watching the Dodgers/Red Sox final innings,” Trump tweeted. “It is amazing
how a manager takes out a pitcher who is loose & dominating through almost 7
innings, Rich Hill of Dodgers, and brings in nervous reliever(s) who get
shellacked. 4 run lead gone. Managers do it all the time, big mistake!”Roberts
responded, saying, “I don’t know how many Dodger games he’s watched. I don’t
think he’s privy to the conversation. That’s one man’s opinion.”Los Angeles
trails 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. Game 5 is Sunday at Dodger Stadium,
where the Dodgers lost to Houston in Game 7 a year ago.Informed of Trump’s
comments, Boston manager Alex Cora simply said, “Dave Roberts is a good
manager.”When he was told of the presidential tweet, a subdued Hill said, “I
didn’t read it.”Roberts and Hill talked in the sixth, with the 38-year-old
left-hander telling his manager to keep an eye on him.“Right there, I know Rich
did everything he could, competed, left everything out there,” Roberts said.
“We’ve got to do a better job of picking him up.” Hill struck out seven and
walked three in 6 1/3 innings with one run and one hit. He is just the second
pitcher age 38 or older to post three World Series starts in which he’s allowed
just one earned
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including two last year. Roger Clemens holds the record with four.Scott
Alexander inherited a runner from Hill, who had issued a leadoff walk to Xander
Bogaerts. Alexander walked Brock Holt and Roberts was quick with the hook.“It
just didn’t work out the way we wanted,” Hill said. “We’ll move forward and
concentrate on Sunday.”The Dodgers turned to Ryan Madson, brought in from the
Nationals in August to bolster the ‘pen in high-leverage situations.It didn’t
work. Madson gave up a three-run homer to pinch-hitter Mitch Moreland, drawing
the Red Sox within 4-3.The Dodgers turned to Kenley Jansen in the eighth for the
second straight game.Bad move.The All-Star closer served up a one-out homer to
Steve Pearce that tied the game at 4-all.“We’re all disappointed,” Jansen said.
“We can’t question ourselves. It’s another day tomorrow. It’s not over until
it’s over.”Hours earlier, Jansen gave up Jackie Bradley Jr.’s tying homer in the
eighth inning of an epic Game 3, blowing his attempt at a six-out save in his
third major World Series failure in two years.But the bullpen rallied, with
eight relievers combining for 11 innings of five-hit ball in the longest World
Series game in history. They mostly shut down Boston’s powerful lineup and the
Dodgers eked out a 3-2, 18-inning victory in the 7-hour, 20-minute affair that
ended early Saturday. Converted starter Alex Wood got the win by pitching out of
trouble in the 18th after giving up a leadoff walk.Jansen struggled against
Houston a year ago in the World Series, too.He gave up a solo homer to Marwin
Gonzalez in Game 2 for his first blown save in the playoffs. That ended his
major league record streak of converting his first 12 postseason save chances.In
Game 5, he took the loss in a 10-inning defeat.The Dodgers ran through Dylan
Floro, Wood and Kenta Maeda in the ninth when the Red Sox exploded for five
runs, four of them with two outs. Floro gave up pinch-hitter Rafael Devers‘
go-ahead single with one out.“We have another chance,” Jansen said, “and we’ll
give it our best shot.”It might be their last. The New York Yankees suffered a
double loss on Sunday.The Yankees, heading for the American League wild card and
fighting to maintain home-field advantage for that game against the Oakland
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failed to finish off a sweep of the Baltimore Orioles, blowing a 3-0 lead and
losing, 6-3.Then, after the game, New York manager Aaron Boone revealed Didi
Gregorius suffered torn cartilage in his right wrist diving into home with the
run that clinched the Yankees’ return to the postseason.Article continues below
...The shortstop received a cortisone injection and reported improvement after
Sunday’s game.“Didi’s a great player and obviously I think everyone in this room
understands how important he is to our team,” Boone said after the game. “Kind
of an anchor for us defensively in the infield, and obviously what he brings
from the left side of the plate. So, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there,
but hopefully we get some good news here in a few days.” The most likely move
for the Yankees, who finished their home schedule Sunday and open a four-game
series against the Tampa Bay Rays Monday night in St. Petersburg, would be to
shift Gleyber Torres back to second base and play Neil Walker at second with
Gregorius out.Gregorius is batting .268, with a career-high 27 homers, 86 RBIs
and 10 stolen bases this season.“Well it feels a little bit better now,” he
said. “I know it happened yesterday during the game. I slid into home plate, my
right hand got stuck. We were celebrating everything was fine. I went home,
fine. I woke up this morning, it wasn’t feeling good. I came up here and we did
an MRI. It showed I had a small tear in the wrist.”The Yankees maintained their
1 1/2-game lead over the Oakland A’s for home field in the wild card as the A’s
lost to the Minnesota Twins in Oakland.The loss kept champagne on ice for the
A’s, and allows the Rays to live another day in their late-season chase for the
second wild card — the Oakland magic number remaining at 1.Blake Snell won his
21st game of the season and moved a step closer to the Rays’ second Cy Young
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of the innings.Monday is Luis Severino’s regular day but no starter had been
announced for the visitors, who missed a chance to go a season-high 37 games
over .500 Sunday.Snell joined David Price as the Rays’ only 20-game winners and
passed Price for most wins in a season. His ERA is down to 1.90 and he struck
out 11 in 6 2/3 scoreless innings Sunday.“I think he’s pretty much cemented his
case that he belongs not just in the (Cy Young) conversation, but right at the
top of the list,” Cash said.Said teammate Kevin Kiermaier: “If today wasn’t a
final nod, then I don’t know what is. The guy is just absolutely dominant.”The
Rays lead the season series with the Yankees 8-7, but have gone 5-1 against New
York at the Trop.Willie Adames missed Sunday’s game for Tampa Bay because of
illness and Kiermaier left the game after running into the wall in the eighth
inning — and is considered day-to-day.For the Yankees, Aaron Hicks, who had the
winning hit Saturday, fouled a ball off his ankle before getting the hit and was
rested Sunday.The Yankees have three possibilities to start the wild-card game
and will spend this week both trying to nail down the home field and getting
things in line.“We want to be at home,” said Boone.The Yankees and A’s split six
games this season, but the Yankees currently hold the tiebreaker for home field
because of their divisional record (39-30/35-35).Severino is 7-2 with a 3.06 ERA
lifetime against the Rays, 2-1 with a 3.43 in St. Petersburg. He is 2-1 against
Tampa Bay this season but was strafed by the Rays in July.Mallex Smith is
3-for-10 (.300) against Severino, but both Jesus Sucre and Joey Wendle are
1-for-9 (.111).