{"id":661967,"date":"2026-04-04T02:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661967\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:04:20","slug":"boston-red-sox-break-losing-streak-in-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661967\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox Break Losing Streak In Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox snapped their 5-game losing streak, picking up their 2nd win of the season, beating the San Diego Padres 5-2\u00a0 in the Fenway Park home opener on Friday afternoon, April 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Gray picked up the win, and is 1-0, pitching 6.0 innings, allowing 4 hits and 2 runs, striking out 3.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Weissert pitched a hitless 7th inning, striking out 1. With Garrett Whitlock on the paternity list, Justin Slaten pitched a hitless 8th inning, striking out 1. Aroldis Chapman pitched the 9th inning, picking up his 2nd save of the season. He struck out and walked 1.<\/p>\n<p>Marcelo Mayer hit his 1st homer of the season, a 2-run shot in the 6th inning. He also doubled and was 2-2 in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Willson Contreras hit his 1st home of the season, a solo homer in the 6th inning. He finished the game 1-3.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Durbin picked up his 1st hit of the season, snapping a 0-19 start. His single in the 4th inning drove in a run.<\/p>\n<p>Jarren Duran had a double and was 1-4<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video highlights.<\/p>\n<p>Boston and San Diego will play game 2 of the 3-game series on Saturday afternoon with the pregame starting at 3:10 and 1st pitch at 4:10 p.m. on WDEA AM 1370.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/WDEAAM.png\" alt=\"WDEA Ellsworth Maine logo\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox snapped their 5-game losing streak, picking up their 2nd win of the season, beating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543,185,11577],"class_list":{"0":"post-661967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-redsox","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-videos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116343988927562085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}