Ninth-place hitter Ceddanne Rafaela hit a three-run homer and had five RBIs, while Rob Refsnyder and Rafael Devers also went deep during the Boston Red Sox’s 13-3 road rout of the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday.
Rafaela, whose towering homer to left-center field in the seventh made it 12-3 and capped his productive day, was one of six players with at least two hits for Boston, which outscored Cleveland 20-6 in winning the last two of this three-game set. The Red Sox’s Jarren Duran had four hits with an RBI, while Refsnyder and Kristian Campbell each drove in two.
In his second start, Boston’s Brayan Bello (2-0) yielded six hits and three walks, but only Nolan Jones’ three-run homer in his sixth and final inning. Meanwhile, Logan Allen (1-2) allowed seven runs, nine hits and three walks over 4 1/3 innings for Cleveland, which committed four errors and some poor baserunning while dropping its first 2025 home series.
Cleveland threatened in the first, but Boston first baseman Romy Gonzalez threw out Steven Kwan at the plate on Jose Ramirez’s grounder.
Refsnyder led off the second with a drive down the left field line that barely cleared the 19-foot-high wall. Allen then issued a one-out walk to Campbell, who went to third on Carlos Narvaez’s single and scored when Cleveland’s Carlos Santana dropped the cutoff from Angel Martinez’s throw of a flyout from center.
Cleveland ran itself into another out in the second. Catcher Bo Naylor led off with a double, then was easily thrown out trying to steal third.
In the fourth, Campbell doubled into the left-field corner, went to third on Narvaez’s ground ball and came home via Rafaela’s sacrifice fly.
Boston broke things open with five runs in the fifth.
Allen loaded the bases with nobody out before Refsnyder’s sacrifice fly. Gonzalez’s four-pitch walk reloaded the bags and ended Allen’s day. Paul Sewald allowed a two-run single to Campbell. Gonzalez then scored from third on a double steal and Campbell was plated via Rafaela’s ground-rule double off a fly ball that right fielder Jones lost in the sun.
Devers’ sixth-inning drive easily cleared the right field fence.
–Field Level Media
