The Red Sox needed 12 games to do it, but Boston secured its first series victory of the season. The 5-0 getaway day win over the Milwaukee Brewers clinched the series over the reigning National League Central champions.<\/p>\n
Starting pitching did indeed prevent runs and the offense did its job in a productive third inning.<\/p>\n
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Here are three takeaways from Boston\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n
Sonny Days<\/p>\n
Sonny Gray clearly found his rhythm once Boston began its 2026 Fenway slate.<\/p>\n
The veteran right-hander tallied six innings of two-run ball to down the San Diego Padres last Friday. Gray followed that with 6 \u2153 shutout frames Wednesday afternoon. The Brewers mustered just three hits against the Red Sox starter, who added two strikeouts.<\/p>\n
In the third inning with rare trouble, he made a big pitch to end the third with a sweeper to strike out Jake Bauers.<\/p>\n
Gray talked his way back to the mound after a post-sixth inning chat with Alex Cora. Gray pitched like the competitor the Red Sox hoped they acquired. For the second straight outing, Gray impressed.<\/p>\n
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Dro\u2019s Woe\u2019s<\/p>\n
Shane Drohan ran through two stints in the Red Sox organization. At 27, he finally made his MLB debut in Boston, though he did so with the Brewers.<\/p>\n
The lefty looked strong for two innings before the Red Sox wore him down in the third. Boston forced eight three-ball counts while Drohan walked four hitters.<\/p>\n
The home team tallied three runs in the inning with opportunistic offense: a bases-loaded walk for Willson Contreras, an infield laser for Wilyer Abreu and a sacrifice fly for Trevor Story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox needed 12 games to do it, but Boston secured its first series victory of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,789,4364,6133,59,4,14058,89,2543,63678,18,44914,1587,1035,5824,409,606],"class_list":{"0":"post-671043","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-carlos-narvaez","13":"tag-jake-bauers","14":"tag-massachusetts","15":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-nesn","18":"tag-red-sox","19":"tag-redsox","20":"tag-ryan-watson","21":"tag-san-diego-padres","22":"tag-shane-drohan","23":"tag-sonny-gray","24":"tag-trevor-story","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-willson-contreras","27":"tag-wilyer-abreu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116371398669069589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671043","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=671043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}