Price goes all the way as Red Sox defeat Orioles
>> BOSTON: David Price took a shut-out into the ninth inning and held Baltimore to five hits in his first complete game this season, leading the Boston Red Sox past the Orioles 6-2 on Thursday night.
JD Martinez hit a two-run homer in the first, and Xander Bogaerts homered with two on during a fourrun fifth.
Price (4-4) struck out eight and didn’t walk a batter while winning consecutive starts for the first time this season.
Andrew Susac led off the ninth with a double, the first Baltimore player to reach second base in the game. Manny Machado spoiled the shut-out bid with a two-out homer, but Price finished off Baltimore on Jonathan Schoop’s pop-up.
Kevin Gausman (3-3) went 4-2/3 innings for Baltimore, allowing six runs and eight hits while striking out six and walking two.
In Miami, Justin Turner tied a career high with five RBIs and Kenta Maeda pitched eight sharp innings to help the Los Angeles Dodgers snap a six-game losing streak by beating the Marlins 7-0.
Turner, who broke his left wrist in spring training and made his season debut on Tuesday, hit a three-run double for the Dodgers’ first hit in the third inning. He added a two-run double in the fourth and also singled in finishing 6 for 13 in the series (.462).
Maeda (3-3) allowed two hits and no walks in his longest outing of the season, and retired the final 17 batters he faced while throwing 96 pitches. Kenley Jansen gave up two hits in the ninth, but struck out the side to complete the Dodgers’ sixth shut-out.
Yasiel Puig hit his third homer of the season, all in the past four games.
Caleb Smith (2-5) threw 60 pitches before he gave up a hit. But he walked the bases loaded in the third, and Turner cleared them with a double. Kemp followed with an RBI double, and Smith departed after three innings trailing 4-0.
In St Louis, Vince Velasquez pitched shut-out ball into the seventh inning, and Carlos Santana and Pedro Florimon each hit home runs in the Philadelphia Phillies’ 6-2 victory over the Cardinals.
Velasquez (4-4) gave up five hits in 6-1/3 innings, struck out five and walked two in recording his third straight win. The Phillies won for the seventh time in eight games and improved to 17-2 against opponents outside of the NL East. At 25-16, the Phillies are nine games over .500 for the first time since they were 102-60 at the close of the 2011 season.
Odubel Herrera reached base three times to extend his on-base streak to 43 games, fifth-longest in franchise history. It is also the longest streak in the majors since Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman reached in 46 successive games in 2016.
Luke Weaver (3-3) gave up one run and four hits over seven innings in the loss.
In Chicago, Welington Castillo hit a tie-breaking two-run single in Chicago’s four-run eighth as the White Sox beat the Texas Rangers 4-2.