BOSTON — The postseason hopes for the World Series champion Boston Red Sox have all but faded away. Now, Dustin Pedroia’s season is over, too.
Manager John Farrell said the star second baseman will have season-ending surgery on his left hand, making the announcement after a 10-6 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday.
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WHO: Red Sox (Buchholz 7-8) at Royals (Hendriks 0-1)
WHEN: 8 p.m. Thursday
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“He’s going to have a procedure done here tomorrow … in Boston that will address what he’s dealing with right now,” Farrell said. “I don’t know any more specifics than that, but there will be certainly a follow-up after that’s completed.”
On the field, the Red Sox report certainly wasn’t any better.
Wei-Yin Chen pitched perfect ball into the sixth inning, Adam Jones helped provide an early cushion and the Orioles completed a three-game sweep.
Brandon Workman (1-9) lost his ninth straight decision. He was tagged for six runs – five earned – in the third inning.
“It was a combination of things,” Farrell said. “They had some of hits that found some spots, we didn’t make some plays, he contributed a couple of walks.”
Baltimore built an 8-0 lead in the fifth inning.
Caleb Joseph homered and drove in three runs and Portland native Ryan Flaherty got a career-high four hits as Baltimore won its 11th in 14 games to maintain its double-digit lead atop the AL East.
Chen (15-4) retired the first 16 batters before Dan Butler doubled for his first major league hit. Chen gave up one run and three hits in seven innings, striking out four without a walk.
The Red Sox scored five runs in the ninth. Darren O’Day got the last out with two runners on for his third save.
Jones’ two-run double highlighted the six-run third, and Joseph hit a two-run drive in the fifth.
Chen improved to 12-2 in his last 21 starts. The only run off the left-hander scored on a homer by Xander Bogaerts.
Carlos Rivero hit his first career homer, a three-run shot off Joe Saunders, in the ninth.
The Orioles combined six hits, two walks and Rivero’s throwing error from third base for their burst in the third. Alejandro De Aza, Joseph and Flaherty each had RBI singles and Steve Pearce drew a bases-loaded walk.
And with their magic number in single digits for clinching the AL East and a 10-game homestand coming up, the Orioles could clinch at home. But Manager Bucky Showalter wasn’t about to think that far ahead.
“If that comes to be the potential for that to happen, that’s so far away, if we’re fortunate to have that day happen, then we can talk about it,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of roads to cross.”
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