Tampa Bay 5, Boston 3
When: 8:00 PM ET, Sunday, August 29, 2010
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Paul Emmel, 1B -
Bill Hohn, 2B -
Gary Darling, 3B -
Bruce Dreckman
Attendance:
23438
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Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena homered to lift the Tampa Bay Rays to a 5-3 over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night at St. Petersburg, Fla.
James Shields (13-11) notched the win. He pitched 6 2/3 innings, allowing seven hits and three runs while fanning eight. Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth for his 39th save.
Pena’s solo homer opened the scoring in the fourth inning. Boston took a 2-1 in the fifth on RBI singles by Yamaico Navarro and Marco Scutaro.
The Red Sox made it 3-1 in the sixth inning on an RBI single by Daniel Nava, but Tampa Bay scored three times in the bottom of the sixth to take the lead.
Crawford smashed a two-run homer to tie the game. Evan Longoria followed with a ground-rule double and scored on a single by Saturday night’s hero, Dan Johnson.
Johnson hit a walk-off homer in the 10th inning on Saturday.
John Lackey took the loss, surrendering five runs on nine hits in 6 1/3 innings. Lackey (12-8) walked three and struck out seven.
The Rays won the final two games of the three-game series to remain tied with the New York Yankees atop the American League East standings. Meanwhile, the Red Sox fell 6 1/2 games behind the two teams.
Top Game Performances
Hitting
| Boston |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Mike Lowell | Player |
Carl Crawford
|
|
2 |
Hits |
2 |
|
0 |
RBI |
2 |
|
0 |
HR |
1 |
|
3 |
TB |
5 |
|
.500 |
Avg |
.500 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Boston
|
7 |
0 |
9 |
.206 |
11 |
10 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
11 |
2 |
18 |
.344 |
10 |
8 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
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