Enmanuel Valdez and David Hamilton each drove in two runs as the Boston Red Sox stormed back for an 8-6 win over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday in the second game of a three-game series.
The Red Sox totaled 13 hits and climbed out from a 4-0 deficit by scoring in each of the three middle innings, highlighted by a five-run fifth.
Jarren Duran went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run, while Rafael Devers (triple), Hamilton (home run) and Ceddanne Rafaela each added two hits to help Boston even the series.
Philadelphia managed only three hits against five Boston relievers, including winner Cam Booser (1-2), who immediately followed Nick Pivetta. Booser threw a 1-2-3 fifth inning and earned his first major league win.
The Phillies’ Nick Castellanos and Bryce Harper both went 2-for-4, and Bryson Stott had two RBIs.
Reliever Jose Ruiz (1-1) took the loss.
The Red Sox’s rally started with Jamie Westbrook’s sacrifice fly to right in the fourth. Devers’ one-out triple set the table.
Boston’s big inning began with three straight hits and a throwing error by Phillies second baseman Whit Merrifield after Duran’s infield single, with two scoring on the play. After Ruiz replaced Philadelphia starter Cristopher Sanchez, Rob Refsnyder’s line-drive single and Tyler O’Neill’s sacrifice fly brought in the tying run.
Boston took the lead on Valdez’s pinch-hit, two-RBI single off the Green Monster before he was tagged out trying to reach third on the relay throw.
Hamilton’s two-run homer over the bullpen followed a Bobby Dalbec leadoff walk in the sixth.
The Phillies bounced back and made it a three-run game in the seventh as Stott doubled into the right field corner to score Castellanos.
The Red Sox left five runners on base over their final two offensive innings, but Kenley Jansen held on for his 10th save after Alec Bohm’s sacrifice fly to right scored Harper in the ninth.
A leadoff walk to Kyle Schwarber set the wheels in motion for Philadelphia’s two-run start in the first.
Schwarber moved to third on Castellanos’ double deep into the left field corner and scored the opening run on Harper’s hard-hit single past a diving Dalbec at first. Stott reached on a slow-developing attempted double play, driving in the second Philadelphia run.
The Phillies’ third inning included two more of Pivetta’s season-high four walks and produced two more runs. Merrifield lined an RBI single to right and David Dahl knocked a wall-banging double in back-to-back at-bats to double the lead.
Pivetta allowed four runs in four innings, while Sanchez gave up four runs in four-plus innings.
–Field Level Media
