Boston 7, Tampa Bay 4
When: 1:10 PM ET, Sunday, September 22, 2019
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Carlos Torres, 1B -
Chris Conroy, 2B -
Paul Nauert, 3B -
Ed Hickox
Attendance:
17946
By Field Level Media
Christian Vazquez hit a three-run homer in the first inning and the Boston Red Sox defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 7-4 Sunday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Red Sox right-hander Nathan Eovaldi (2-0) pitched six innings, allowing three runs on seven hits. He walked two, struck out six and didn't allow a hit after a leadoff single in the fourth.
Joey Wendle and Brendan McKay homered for the Rays (92-64), who enter the final week of the regular season in a three-way battle with Oakland and Cleveland for the American League's two wild-card playoff berths. The Rays and Indians (92-64) are tied for the second wild-card spot, two games behind the A's (94-62).
Rays left-hander Ryan Yarbrough (11-5) barely made it out of the first inning, as the Red Sox sent 10 batters to the plate in taking a 4-0 lead.
With one out, Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts and J.D. Martinez hit consecutive singles, scoring one run and leaving runners at first and third. Vazquez followed with a deep blast to left field, his 22nd home run of the season. The Red Sox loaded the bases after Vazquez's homer. But Yarbrough caught Jackie Bradley Jr. looking at a called third strike on a 3-2 pitch to get out of the jam.
The Rays scored single runs in each of the first three innings against Eovaldi.
Wendle led off the bottom of the first with a walk and moved to third on Austin Meadows' single. Wendle scored when Tommy Pham grounded into a double play.
Brandon Lowe led off the second with a single, moved to second on a one-out single by Willy Adames and scored on Kevin Kiermaier's single to center, making it 4-2.
The Rays pulled within a run in the third as Wendle led off with a homer to left field, his second.
The Red Sox knocked out Yarbrough in a two-run fourth. With one out, Bradley doubled. After a walk to Devers, right-hander Andrew Kittredge replaced Yarbrough. Kittredge hit Bogaerts with a pitch to load the bases and walked Martinez to force in a run. A wild pitch scored another to make it 6-3.
Yarbrough allowed six runs on eight hits in 3 1/3 innings, with one walk and two strikeouts.
The Red Sox tacked on a run in the seventh after Martinez and Vazquez led off with back-to-back singles. Two outs later, Chris Owings reached on a fielding error by Wendle at third base to increase the lead to 7-3.
McKay hit a pinch-hit homer in the ninth, the first of his career.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Boston
|
11 |
1 |
15 |
.282 |
22 |
10 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
9 |
2 |
15 |
.273 |
13 |
8 |
3 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
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