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Mookie Betts , The Canadian Presshit back-to-back homers for the go-ahead runs in the eighth inning and the struggling Boston Red Sox beat the MLB-best Tampa Bay Rays 6-4 on Friday night.
With the game tied at 4, Betts hit a leadoff shot off Diego Castillo and Moreland connected three pitches later. went 1 2/3 scoreless innings for the Red Sox, who are 7-13 and trail the AL East-leading Rays by seven games.The Rays are the last team in the majors to have consecutive losses this season. Castillo was also the loser in a 6-5, 11-inning loss to Baltimore on Thursday night.
After 20 games last season, the eventual World Series champion Red Sox were 10 games up on Tampa Bay ., mired in an 0 for 21 slide, got the Rays even at 4-all with a two-run double during the sixth. The inning was setup when Boston third basemanwith one on and no outs. Devers had a run-scoring double in the fifth for Boston's first hit before Vazquez put Boston ahead 3-2 on his two-run shot to centre.Betts, hitless in his previous 12 at-bats, doubled in the sixth and scored as the Red Sox grabbed a 4-2 lead whenMartinez has a hit in 19 of 20 games this season.
Brandon Lowe hit his fifth homer in the last nine games, a solo drive that just cleared the fence at the 322-foot mark down the right-field line in the second before Garcia's third-inning RBI triple as the Rays went up 2-0.was examined by doctors Thursday and it was determined that his latest left knee injury is not serious."We're just going to let it calm down for a few days and then it should be all right," Pedroia said.
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