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Streaking slugger Giancarlo Stanton tries to hit a home run in his seventh straight game when the Marlins host the Giants. Stanton, who leads the majors with a team-record 44 homers this season, has four in 22 career at-bats against Cain. The major league record for consecutive games with a home run is eight, set by Dale Long (1956), Don Mattingly (1987) and Ken Griffey Jr. (1993). Continue to Article

August 16, 2017 2:38:am EST

The Red Sox have found different ways to win ball games over the past month. Xander Bogaerts had three hits, Hanley Ramirez, Sandy Leon and Jackie Bradley Jr. all added two RBIs and the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-4 on Tuesday night. Boston blew the game open courtesy of a wild fifth inning, tallying eight hits and eight runs against Cardinals starter Mike Leake and reliever Matt Bowman. Continue to Article

August 15, 2017 11:25:pm EST

The Boston Red Sox have turned their first triple play in six years. With runners at first and second in the fourth inning Tuesday night, slow-footed St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina grounded sharply to Red Sox rookie Rafael Devers at third base. He stepped on the bag and threw to second baseman Eduardo Nunez, who relayed to Mitch Moreland at first, where Molina was out on a close play. It was the first triple play for Boston since Aug. 16, 2011, in Game 2 of a doubleheader against Tampa Bay. It also was the latest highlight for Devers, who began the night with six homers and 21 hits in 16 games since being called up to the majors last month. He added an RBI single in the first inning Continue to Article

August 15, 2017 8:51:pm EST

BOSTON — On a night the Red Sox turned a triple play, the Red Sox player who mattered most was the one infielder uninvolved: Xander Bogaerts, the shortstop who came into a 10-4 win over the Cardinals hitting .178 since the start of July. Bogaerts had three hits Tuesday, including a line single that was part of an eight-run fifth inning. MORE RED SOX Sox use triple play, eight-run inning to beat Cardinals, 10-4 Drellich: Devers may be special enough to avoid rookie dropoff The arrival of Eduardo Nunez and Devers has almost served to hide the shortstop that plays between them. Almost. But Bogaerts remains essential. To hitting coach Chili Davis, Bogaerts appeared to be coming around during the Continue to Article

August 15, 2017 8:41:pm EST

It’s happened to everybody at some point of another: You’re on your way to a baseball game, excited to grab some peanuts and Cracker Jacks and whatnot, when your train gets delayed or you get stuck in traffic. That is so frustrating, especially if you have riled-up kids or were planning on proposing specifically in the third inning and you might not make it to the field before then (this is a hypothetical situation that should ideally never happen but whatever). It has to be even more frustrating if you’re, say, a player who is also trying to get to the field before first pitch? Which is what happened to Red Sox pitcher Steven Wright before Tuesday night’s game between the Sox and the Cardinals Continue to Article

August 15, 2017 7:11:pm EST