BOSTON – Christian Vazquez scored, Xander Bogaerts had three hits and JD Martinez hit extra-base for the seventh game in a row to help the Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 9-2 Wednesday night. completing game three series.
Nathan Eovaldi (1-1) allowed one run, three shots and three walks in seven innings, plus seven shots. The Red Sox, who were swept by Baltimore in the inaugural series, defeated the current American Rays League champion with a combined score of 26-9.
Prior to the series, Rays had won seven consecutive games at Fenway Park and 13 of the last 14.
Ryan Yarbrough (0-1), who pitched 5 innings 2/3 without allowing a run in his first start of the season, hung three more zeros before Bogaerts hit a single RBI single with a single run and scored in Vazquez’s shot in the fourth.
Boston added six in the fifth – all with two outs – due to Tampa defense errors.
Martinez is the first Red Sox player with at least one extra-based hit in the first six games of the season since David Ortiz started 2005 with six in a row.
For Raze, Cubans Yandy Díaz 4-0; Randy Arozarena 4-1 with a marked run. Dominicans Manuel Margot 2-0; Francisco Mejía 3-1 with a goal scored; and Willy Adames 3-0.
For the Red Sox, Dominicans Rafael Devers 3-0 with a run and Franchy Cordero 1-1. Puerto Ricans Vázquez 4-2, with a marked run and an RBI; and Kiké Hernández 5-2 with a marked run.