Boston 5, San Francisco 4
When: 1:05 PM ET, Thursday, September 19, 2019
Where: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Temperature:
63°
Umpires:
Home -
Will Little, 1B -
Joe West, 3B -
Eric Cooper
Attendance:
35816
By Field Level Media
Left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez earned his career-best 18th win, and his teammates rocked San Francisco Giants ace Madison Bumgarner on Thursday afternoon, allowing the host Boston Red Sox to salvage one win in the three-game interleague series with a 5-4 victory.
Andrew Benintendi and Christian Vazquez each had two hits and two runs, and Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers accounted for all five Boston RBIs as the Red Sox (80-72), after surviving a wild finish, completed the interleague portion of their schedule with a 10-10 record.
Rodriguez (18-6) became Boston's first 18-game winner since Rick Porcello won 22 in 2016, throwing six innings of two-hit ball. He held the Giants (74-79) to one unearned run while walking two and striking out 10.
The Red Sox did all their scoring against Bumgarner (9-9) in the first two innings.
Devers and Bogaerts had RBI singles in the first inning after Benintendi opened the game with a double and Vazquez followed with a walk.
Boston added three in the second in a very similar manner, with four consecutive singles by Benintendi, Vazquez, Devers and Bogaerts. Devers' hit drove in one and Bogaerts' hit knocked in a pair to make it 5-1.
After getting an unearned run in the first, the Giants didn't score again until the eighth, and they nearly erased all of their four-run deficit in the process.
Kevin Pillar's two-out, two-run double against Marcus Walden got the Giants within 5-3 in the eighth.
The Giants then loaded the bases against Matt Barnes, who won a six-pitch duel with pinch hitter Stephen Vogt, getting a strikeout.
Closer Brandon Workman then came within one ball of blowing a two-run lead in the ninth. He walked Pillar with two outs and the bases loaded to force in a run that trimmed the Boston lead to 5-4.
Workman then went to a full count on Evan Longoria before getting him swinging to wrap up his 15th save.
The Giants won the first two games of the series 7-6 (in 15 innings) and 11-3.
Pillar finished with three RBIs, and Mauricio Dubon scored twice for the Giants, who were out-hit 10-6.
One day after recording his 2,000th career win, Giants manager Bruce Bochy took his 2,023rd loss.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
San Francisco |
|
Boston |
Madison Bumgarner |
Player |
Eduardo Rodriguez
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
5.0 |
IP |
6.0 |
7 |
Strikeouts |
10 |
9 |
Hits |
3 |
9.00 |
ERA |
1.50 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
San Francisco
|
7 |
0 |
8 |
.212 |
18 |
17 |
4 |
6 |
0 |
2 |
Boston
|
10 |
0 |
13 |
.278 |
18 |
9 |
5 |
3 |
0 |
1 |