Sports Xchange: Ramirez, Bogaerts Help Sox Edge Pirates

By Gethin Coolbaugh, The Sports Xchange

BOSTON -- Hanley Ramirez officially assumed the Big Papi role for the Boston Red Sox on Thursday afternoon. 

In a moment that retired Boston slugger David Ortiz often flourished in, with the Red Sox down two runs in the late innings, Ramirez delivered the game-tying blow. 

Ramirez's two-run double to center field with one out and the bases loaded in the eighth erased the deficit, and Xander Bogaerts brought him home shortly thereafter as the Red Sox rallied past the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 at Fenway Park.

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