BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Pinch-hitter Ceddanne Rafaela had a tiebreaking, two-run homer over the Green Monster and the Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia 3-1 on Wednesday night while ending the home run streak of the Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber at five games.<\/p>\n
Rafaela hit a fastball from Orion Kerkering, who replaced Tanner Banks (0-3) with two outs in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Making his second start after missing a couple of weeks due to right hamstring tightness that forced him from a start on April 20, Sonny Gray (4-1) gave up one run and two hits over six innings with six strikeouts and one walk.<\/p>\n
Aroldis Chapman struck out the side in the ninth, working around a pair of walks, and finished a three-hitter to remain perfect in nine save chances.<\/p>\n
Slumping Trevor Story hit a solo homer for the Red Sox, who had lost three of their previous four games. He entered hitting .203 with two homers.<\/p>\n
Red Sox catcher Connor Wong left in the ninth after rolling his right ankle on a popup that ended the top of the eighth as pitcher Garrett Whitlock made a sliding catch. Wong said he was sore and tests showed the ankle was fine.<\/p>\n
Justin Crawford went deep for the Phillies, who dropped to 11-4 since Don Mattingly replaced Rob Thomson as manager after a 9-19 start.<\/p>\n
Schwarber went 0 for 2 after tying a franchise-record by homering in five straight games.<\/p>\n
Boston first baseman Willson Contreras returned after missing Tuesday\u2019s series-opening loss due to a bruised right hand sustained when hit by a fastball on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Phillies shortstop Trea Tunner didn’t start because of an illness, but walked pinch hitting in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia starter Andrew Painter gave up a run and four hits in five innings. He was tagged for eight runs in just 3 2\/3 innings in his previous start.<\/p>\n
Phillies LHP Jes\u00fas Luzardo (3-3, 5.98 ERA) is set to start the series finale Thursday against Red Sox LHP Ranger Su\u00e1rez (2-2, 2.77), who spent eight seasons with Philadelphia before signing a $130 million, five-year contract with Boston in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Pinch-hitter Ceddanne Rafaela had a tiebreaking, two-run homer over the Green Monster and the Boston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5161,1113,5,141,1396,790,9925,4506,5159,81,4,4681,9500,9501,144,25,4216,40,87948,9496,9497,83947,36947,4874,1587,9681,1035,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-698347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-andrew-painter","9":"tag-aroldis-chapman","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-boston","12":"tag-ceddanne-rafaela","13":"tag-connor-wong","14":"tag-don-mattingly","15":"tag-garrett-whitlock","16":"tag-justin-crawford","17":"tag-kyle-schwarber","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-orion-kerkering","20":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","21":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","22":"tag-philadelphia","23":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","24":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","25":"tag-phillies","26":"tag-phillies-red-sox-score","27":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","28":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","29":"tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","30":"tag-product-40809-ap-pennsylvania-sports-only","31":"tag-rob-thomson","32":"tag-sonny-gray","33":"tag-tanner-banks","34":"tag-trevor-story","35":"tag-willson-contreras"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698347","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=698347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}