Tampa Bay Rays Beat Boston Red Sox, Out to Best MLB Start Since 1987
The Tampa Bay Rays continued their hot start to the season on Monday night, beating the Boston Red Sox, 1-0, at Tropicana Field.
The Rays are now 10-0 on the season, which is the best start to a major league season since the 1987 Brewers started 13-0. That is back when the Brewers played in the American League.
Tampa is finding all kinds of ways to win this season and found a way to win a close game in this one, getting a clutch eighth inning home run from Brandon Lowe which served as the game-winner. You can watch that here.
The home run came on a 3-2 pitch from Sox reliever Chris Martin, which was an elevated fastball. He punished it out to right field.
Offense was obviously hard to come by in this one. The Rays had just five hits: the home run by Lowe, a double by Luke Raley, and singles by Randy Arozarena, Isaac Paredes and Yandy Diaz.
The Red Sox had just three hits: a single by Masataka Yoshida, a single by Christian Arroyo and a single by pinch-hitter Bobby Dalbec, who is up because of the injury to Adam Duvall, who is now on the injured list.
On the pitching front for Tampa Bay, Jalen Beeks served as the opener, tossing two scoreless innings. He turned it over to Josh Fleming, who went four innings in relief. Garrett Cleavinger tossed a scorelss inning, as did Colin Poche, who got the win. Pete Fairbanks got his first save of the year.
Nick Pivetta started for the Red Sox, going five innings with six strikeouts. Josh Wincowski threw two scoreless innings, and Martin got the loss, his first of the year.
The Red Sox are now 5-5 after the loss.
These two teams will meet again Tuesday at 6:40 p.m. ET.
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