Cora moved Story from the No. 2 to the No. 5 spot<\/a> in the order. He slashed an RBI single in the first and a sacrifice fly in the third. But when he heard after the game that Isiah Kiner-Falefa was starting Tuesday, he thought Cora might be giving him an off day.<\/p>\nCora was in his office when Story entered for a visit. He wanted to make sure he was playing. Cora assured Story that Kiner-Falefa was playing third.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love playing, and I think the way to get out of (a slump) is through playing,\u201d Story said after the win. \u201cSometimes there\u2019s time for a day off, but I felt like Monday was a big step in the right direction with my at-bats and hitting the ball hard and executing my plan better. So to me, creating more momentum and staying in there, no matter who\u2019s pitching.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cora appreciated the shortstop\u2019s desire to play through it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat tells me a lot, where he\u2019s at,\u201d Cora said.<\/p>\n
With the bases loaded in the sixth Tuesday, Story proved Cora right. He fell behind 0-2 but then slammed a changeup to left field, driving in two runs to break open the scoreless game. Pinch hitter Caleb Durbin hit a soft grounder to second, scoring another run, giving the Red Sox some breathing room.<\/p>\n
\u201cGames like that with aces with elite stuff, when the window opens, you have to take advantage,\u201d Cora said.<\/p>\n
Far too often this season, the Red Sox haven\u2019t taken advantage. And even when they have, they\u2019ve coughed up the lead right away. That nearly happened again.<\/p>\n
But Crochet buckled down before Zack Kelly escaped further damage. Crochet opened the seventh at 89 pitches and allowed two singles and a walk, loading the bases with one out. At 106 pitches, pitching coach Andrew Bailey visited Crochet on the mound, but the next pitch he threw hit speedy No. 9 hitter David Hamilton, forcing in a run.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, going into today, (I was focused on) shut-down innings,\u201d Crochet said. \u201cI still failed at that today, but Kelly did a hell of a job just maintaining the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cora turned to Kelly, revealing after the game Justin Slaten is dealing with soreness on his right side and will be reevaluated Wednesday. Kelly induced a hard grounder, knocked down by Durbin at third for an out, but another run scored, pulling Milwaukee within 3-2. A hard groundout to Story at short ended the inning.<\/p>\n
Garrett Whitlock and Aroldis Chapman closed it out for a win the Red Sox desperately needed.<\/p>\n
Crochet may have been miffed at allowing the game to get as close as it did, but his stabilizing presence gave the offense time to wear down Misiorowski.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we call him \u2018Beast.\u2019 He\u2019s our ace,\u201d Story said. \u201cHe went out there and did what he always does and set the tone from pitch one, attacking, and he stopped it right where we needed to stop it. We needed this win tonight, and we got it thanks to Beast.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 The only way to pull out of an awful season-opening stretch is one at-bat, one pitch,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,48,136,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-670231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-milwaukee","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","13":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116369162311023833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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