Houston .- The Dominican veteran David Ortiz again showed the offensive power that elevated a position on the list of home run hitters of all time and was again the best of the day Latin American professional baseball in the majors. From the mound, his compatriot Francisco Liriano worked with knuckles winner and dominated the rival batters he faced.
Ortiz said in defeating the Red Sox, who lost 3-2 to the visitors eternal rivals New York Yankees. Besides the veteran slugger 40 years he was also expelled after protesting a move, but hit his home run number 510 as a professional.
The designated hitter was upset and protested an attack from "strikes" when he had the bases loaded in the ninth inning, so the "umpire" expelled. Ortiz had a 3-1 count when a pitch from pitcher could catch catcher Brian McCann and the "umpire" of the register, Ron Kulpa, called it a "strike".
Both "Big Papi" as the pilot of the Red Sox, John Farrell, protested the move, and the maximum technical manager was the one who finished first sent to the locker room.
Then it was the turn Ortiz walked to the dugout provocatively and was also expelled what made him to return to the batting cage to argue with referees, but his teammates held.
Before leaving the action expelled, Ortiz (7) hit his home run number 510 lifetime, towing two races, which allowed him to stay alone at the twenty-fifth place on the list of all time, surpassing Gary Shefield.
Ortiz, who left his .313 average with the bat, approaches the mark of Mel Ott, who scored 511 home runs and ranks 24th on the list of all time in the majors.
For the Dominican homer was his 452 hits for the Red Sox and even the brand of Carl Yastrzemski, and both are leaders in home runs in franchise history.
With two RBIs leaves mark in 1664 and left three of his compatriot Sammy Sosa, who ranks 28th on the list of all time in that paragraph in the majors, with 1,667 in his career.
Meanwhile, Liriano beat his compatriot Carlos Martinez and beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 St. Louis Cardinals. Liriano (3-1) continues to dominate in the "Busch Stadium" and in seven innings victory was credited by allowing five hits, two runs, two walks and striking to 10 opposing hitters.
The Dominican improved to 4-0 with a 2.07 ERA in six starts as a professional in the field of Cardinals, and reached 24 career games with double digits in strikeouts section. Liriano, who had the support of two relays, left his 3.60 ERA so far of the new season.
His compatriot Jose Ramirez shone with the bat when towing five runs for the Cleveland Indians, who beat the Royals 7-1 Kansas City, the defending champions of the World Series. Ramirez was perfect with the bat to connect three times in the three occasions when he faced the pitcher, and finished with five RBIs, the best mark achieved in his career in a single game.
The Dominican improved to 12 the number of driven so far this season and started his .324 average with wand. Venezuelan Rougned Odor sent the ball out of the park and the Texas Rangers beat the Tigers 5-1 in Detroit.
Odor (5), which he showed the power of his bat and sent the ball to the other side of the fence, had five trips to the plate, hit three times, including his homer and drove in three of the five races produced by the Texas ninth.
The slugger reaches 19 RBIs on the season and put in his batting average .287. The outfielder Jose Bautista also homered and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Dodgers 5-2 in Los Angeles.
Bautista (6) hit two-run homer in the sixth inning and was responsible for giving mobility to the board of the ninth of Toronto, in addition to reaching the 22 driven and put in .227 batting average.
With losing team, third baseman Maikel Franco sent the ball outside, but the Phillies lost 4-6 against the Miami Marlins, the team on the National League with the Chicago Cubs.
Franco (6) homered and drove in two runs, pasting twice in five chances, scored a run and left his average to .250 wand.
Before being severely beaten by a ball, the Cuban José Abreu hit home runs for the White Sox, who defeated 10-4 the Minnesota Twins.
The Twins closer Trevor May, made a shipment that reached 97 miles per hour (156 kilometers per hour) hit in the stomach Abreu. The Cuban slugger fell to the floor and began screaming in pain, so the bench White Sox game tactics to protect his partner and protest the release of May.
Before Abreu (5) had sent the ball off the field, without companions on the road, and left his .243 average with wand. In the attack the Dominican Melky Cabrera guardaboques was nearly perfect when connecting four times five times and drove in three runs. For the Twins Rangers Venezuelan Oswaldo Arcia (4) he hits home runs and drove in two runs.
Puerto Rican shortstop Carlos Correa (5) and the first baseman hit Marwin Gonzalez homered and the Houston Astros beat the Mariners 6-3 Seattle. Correa (5) swing wore fancy being perfect in his three opportunities with the bat, making contact in each of them, including his fifth homer of the season.
The Puerto Rican, who drove in two runs to reach 15 in the championship, started his .288 average with wand. Gonzalez (2) also sounded the bat, hitting on March 2 with two RBIs and a run scored.
