BOSTON — Having survived a complete meltdown by their bullpen to escape with a victory Tuesday night Steven Kampfer Jersey Womens , the Boston Red Sox send a red-hot David Price to the mound in an effort to sweep the two-game interleague series with the Miami Marlins at Fenway Park on Wednesday night.The first-place Red Sox, who maintained their 6 1/2-game lead over the winning New York Yankees atop the American League East, blew a 4-1 lead as the bullpen surrendered five runs in the top of the eighth. Boston rallied for three in the bottom half — the go-ahead run scored on a wild pitch — and saw Craig Kimbrel blow the save in the ninth before the walk-off win came on a throwing error.“A win is a win, no matter how we win,” Eduardo Nunez told the NESN television audience after his double play grounder turned into the error that produced the winning run and an 8-7 victory.Article continues below ...Craig Kimbrel continued his tough August (two homers, nine walks, 5.56 ERA in 11 1/3 innings over his last 11 outings) by coughing up the lead in the ninth but then got the win on JT Riddle’s throwing error.Asked if the bullpen has been spotty lately, Kimbrel said: “It has been. There’s no denying that. We can all see it but our team’s been able to step up and keep winning through it. Going forward there’s a lot of games left and if we’re going to be a successful team we’re going to have to turn it around.“We don’t want to come out here and give up runs like we did tonight. All we can do is learn from it Laurent Brossoit Jersey Womens , take it and go forward from there because this is the team that we have and this is the team that we’re going to make a run with, so we gotta figure it out or we’re not going to win. I’ve got a pretty good feeling we’re going to figure it out.”The dramatic ending marked the second time in recent weeks the Red Sox avoided what would have been their first four-game losing streak of the season. They are the only team in baseball without a losing streak of at least four games.Now they send Price, who is pitching like a $31 million-a-year pitcher, out to face rookie Trevor Richards in the finale of the brief set.Price hasn’t loss since July 1. Since the All-Star break, he is 5-0 and has allowed five earned runs in 41 1/3 innings over six games.He makes around $1 million every time he takes the mound and he’s truly been earning it, raising his record to 14-6 and lowering his ERA to 3.50.Price is 15-12 all-time in interleague play but 1-3 with a 3.42 ERA in four starts against the Marlins. Miami’s Starlin Castro is 8-for-20 against Price.Richards is 3-7 with a 4.23 ERA on the year but is 0-2 in his last six starts. But he allowed only two runs over the first three of those starts and has struck out 40 in 33 innings over the six-game span.In his last start, against the Yankees in the Bronx, Richards pitched 5 1/3 effective innings in a no-decision that ended in a Marlins win. He allowed two runs on three hits and struck out nine on the big stage.“It’s always fun to throw against the Yankees and in front of a crowd Adidas Luke Schenn Jersey ,” Richards said after that start. “Once the game started, it’s another team. Just focus on the hitters and execute pitches.”As his bullpen melted down in the eighth and ninth innings, Red Sox manager Alex Cora said after the game that reliever Ryan Brasier was not available because of a sore left foot.Before the game, Cora announced Eduardo Rodriguez (ankle sprain) will come off the disabled list to start one of the four games in Chicago this weekend.The Marlins announced Garrett Cooper, who hasn’t played since July 20 because a sprained right wrist, will have season-ending surgery Friday. He appeared in only 14 major league games this season. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Just three games back after an injury that sidelined him for nearly a month, Markus Nutivaara played in place of injured star Seth Jones on the power-play unit. His second-period goal ended up being the game-winner for the Columbus Blue Jackets.Nutivaara scored his first goal since Jan. 23 Adidas Brian Gibbons Jersey , Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 shots, and the surging Blue Jackets outlasted the Ottawa Senators 2-1 Saturday night for their season-high seventh straight win.”Jonesy is definitely a key guy, so you can see we miss him,” said Bobrovsky, who picked up his 32nd win of the season. ”But still we have depth on defense. Guys were smart, Nuti stepped up tonight and made a huge goal.”The Blue Jackets are holding on to the first wild card spot in the Eastern Conference with 83 points, tied with Philadelphia and one point ahead of New Jersey. Bobrovksy said the team is loose and playing as well as ever.”It’s become that feeling that you can relax and just do your thing and don’t worry about anything else,” he said. ”You know that guys will do their job. We have a good atmosphere in the locker room.”Boone Jenner also scored for Columbus Adidas Carter Rowney Jersey , his third tally in three games.Alexandre Burrows scored his fifth of the year and Mike Condon stopped 33 shots for Ottawa, which saw a three-game winning streak snapped on the second night of a back-to-back.Burrows gave the Senators a 1-0 lead when he knocked a bouncing puck past Bobrovsky from the doorstep 12 minutes into the first period. Jenner tied it up later in the first when he caught up with a fluttering pass from Thomas Vanek in the slot and lifted it over Condon’s shoulder.”I can’t overstate how important that play was, just to get us tied,” Columbus coach John Tortorella said. ”I thought it was a really good effort by Thomas in the neutral zone. It was a huge play in the game to get back even before maybe they score another one. If they score another one, you never know where it goes.”Ottawa’s Max McCormick went to the penalty box late in the second period for plowing over Bobrovsky, a hit that required a trainer’s visit to make sure the goalie was OK. With 22 seconds left in the Blue Jackets’ power play, Nutivaara connected on a slap shot from the point.Senators coach Guy Boucher said his team is showing the effects of a difficult schedule.”We gave whatever we had,” Boucher said. ”It was a back-to-back. They were waiting for us. This was our fourth back-to-back in 15 days and all four back-to-backs were against teams that were not on the back-to-back. So at some point you have to be fair to the players. It’s ridiculous. They gave everything they had until the very end. They pushed with whatever was left.”NOTES: Ottawa F Ryan Dzingel had to be helped off the ice in third period after getting hit in the head. Boucher said afterward that he’s expected to be fine. … Columbus coach John Tortorella said Jones Adidas Jaycob Megna Jersey , who has an ”upper body- injury, is day-to-day. … Ottawa F Jim O’Brien got his first assist since March 16, 2013 – five years and a day – on Burrows’ first-period goal. … Condon started for Ottawa after Craig Anderson made 23 saves in a 3-2 overtime win against the Dallas Stars on Friday. … Jenner has four goals and two assists in the last five games. … Columbus is 17-0 when leading after two periods at Nationwide Arena.UP NEXT:Ottawa: Hosts Dallas on Friday.Columbus: Plays at Boston on Monday.—
