By KEN POWTAK Related Press
BOSTON (AP) — Wealthy Hill struck out a season-high 11 in seven shutout innings, and the Boston Purple Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-1 on Saturday for a uncommon sequence win towards one other AL East workforce.
Kiké Hernández hit a solo homer for Boston, which additionally beat Tampa Bay 9-8 on Friday evening. J.D. Martinez and Bobby Dalbec every drove in two runs.
The last-place Purple Sox (62-65) had dropped 4 in a row earlier than the contending Rays arrived at Fenway Park. The Purple Sox are 3-13-1 in sequence towards AL East golf equipment this season.
Randy Arozarena hit an RBI single within the eighth to account for Tampa Bay’s solely run. The Rays (69-57) are preventing for positioning within the AL wild-card standings.
The sport took simply 2 hours, 24 minutes.
Making his fourth begin after spending a month on the injured record with a sprained left knee, the 42-year-old Hill (6-5) allowed solely three singles and walked one. He threw 71 of his 95 pitches for strikes, many within the low 70-mph vary.
John Schreiber labored 1 1/3 innings for his fifth save. He entered with runners on the corners and bought Harold Ramírez to bounce again to the mound, ending the menace.
Tampa Bay left-hander Jeffrey Springs (6-4) allowed 5 runs and eight hits in six innings. He was 3-0 with a 1.66 ERA in his earlier 4 begins.
Purple Sox second baseman Trevor Story went 1 for 3 with an infield single in his return after lacking six weeks with a small fracture close to his proper wrist after getting hit by a pitch from Tampa Bay’s Corey Kluber on July 12.
