Rays win 12th straight to start season, one shy of MLB record
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays received their twelfth straight recreation to start out the season, one wanting the most important league file, as Randy Arozarena hit a three-run homer in a 9-7 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday evening.
The 1987 Milwaukee Brewers and 1982 Atlanta Braves each opened 13-0, tying for the very best mark in large league historical past. Tampa Bay’s 12-game successful streak matches the group file set in June 2004.
Taj Bradley (1-0) received his main league debut for the Rays. The 22-year-old right-hander, recalled from Triple-A Durham when Zach Eflin went on the injured listing, allowed three runs and struck out eight over 5 innings.
Arozarena made it 3-0 with an opposite-field homer off Chris Sale (1-1) within the first. Tampa Bay leads the majors with 30 dwelling runs and has outscored opponents 92-27.
Rafael Devers, who had been hitless in 10 at-bats with six strikeouts within the collection, pulled Boston to 8-7 on a three-run homer off Colin Poche within the seventh.
Arozarena’s sacrifice fly made it 9-7 within the eighth.
Red Sox reliever Zack Kelly left within the fifth with proper elbow ache. After throwing a pitch that hit Yandy Diaz, an emotional Kelly went right into a squat on the mound and used his palms to cowl his face.
Sale (1-1) gave up six runs, 5 earned, in 4 innings. His ERA remained at 11.25.
Pete Fairbanks, the fifth Rays reliever, labored the ninth to get his second save.
Wander Franco drove in a pair with a double throughout a three-run fourth because the Rays took a 6-1 lead.
Alex Verdugo received the primary hit off Bradley with a leadoff double within the fourth and scored on Justin Turner’s single. Kike Hernandez stopped an 0-for-28 slide with an RBI double in a two-run fifth that minimize the deficit to 6-3.
Christian Bethancourt, who entered 2 for 19, received his second hit of the sport with an RBI double throughout a two-run fifth that put Tampa Bay forward 8-3.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: OF Masataka Yoshida (proper hamstring) didn’t play.
Rays: RHP Tyler Glasnow (left indirect) is throwing off a mound.
ADJUSTMENTS
With Yoshida out, Hernandez moved from shortstop to heart area, and Bobby Dalbec received his second begin and fourth general look at shortstop. Dalbec cleanly fielded Diaz’s grounder main off the primary, however was charged with an error on a groundball by the second-place hitter Franco.
UP NEXT
Rays LHP Jeffrey Springs (1-0) and Boston RHP Corey Kluber (0-2) are Thursday’s scheduled starters.
