…The Red Sox defeat the Reds 4-3 after Rafael Devers scores the game-winning goal
A pinch-hitter The game-winning run was scored by Rob Refsnyder when Duran stole the ball from Devers and slid home before Stuart Fairchild, the left fielder, could throw it from foul ground.
“I made the quick decision to head home on the fly,” Duran remarked. “I was determined to return home.”
In the ninth inning, Kenley Jansen recorded the Reds’ only save in 15 chances. Duran gave him a tremendous helping hand when he jumped to get his glove above the centre field fence to
Alex Cora, manager of the Red Sox, remarked, “I thought the ball was way gone.”
Fairchild remarked, “I just hit it to the wrong part of the pitch.” “I was pretty excited as soon as I saw it go up.” And it’s clear that he made a fantastic catch.
With his 434th save, Jansen passed Craig Kimbrel of Baltimore to take sole ownership of fifth place on the career chart.
After Nick Pivetta gave up three runs in four and a half innings, Boston rallied behind home runs from Dominic Smith in the fifth and Connor Wong in the sixth.
Cincinnati won game one of the interleague series 5-2 on Friday night behind two home runs from Spencer Steer and a single from Elly De La Cruz.
Two additional runs were run out of the Reds by themselves. In the fifth inning, Jake Fraley tried to score on a ground ball to third base that Wong fielded, but he was thrown out at the plate by the pitcher, and TJ Friedl was also out at the plate.
For the Reds, Frankie Montas had a strong outing; he gave up four strikeouts, five hits, and two runs and five hits in six innings.
With every pitch, “he threw tonnes of strikes,” Cincinnati manager David Bell remarked. And he has a great deal of success ahead of him if he keeps doing it with everything.
In the seventh, Justin Wilson (1-0) was tagged for the two Boston runs.
Zack Kelly (2-1) secured the victory by recording the last out of the seventh inning.
ROOM FOR TRAINER
Red Sox: OF For the first game since June 2, Wilyer Abreu was back in the starting lineup. The rookie, 24, was out due to a sprained right ankle. On Saturday, he scored and had two hits.
