BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Willson Contreras and Mickey Gasper homered, all nine Boston starters drove in at least one, and the Red Sox dismantled the Arizona Diamondbacks 11-1 on Monday night in the first game of a three-game series.<\/p>\n
Boston, which scored in six straight innings, did not have a strikeout in the game and finished with 16 hits to maintain a six-game lead for the second AL wild card.<\/p>\n
Brayan Bello (5-6) worked 4 2\/3 innings of relief, striking out three and allowing a run on three hits. Bello has a 0.85 ERA in 11 relief appearances (52 2\/3 innings) this season.<\/p>\n
Wyatt Olds made his major league debut for Boston and got his first career strikeout.<\/p>\n
Boston jumped to a 4-0 lead after four innings as Eli White and Caleb Durbin drove in runs with singles, while Nick Sogard and Ceddanne Rafaela added RBI doubles.<\/p>\n
Boston stretched its lead to 7-0 in the fifth on Contreras’ 342-foot homer, Andruw Monasterio’s sacrifice fly and Gasper’s RBI groundout.<\/p>\n
Arizona got on the board with Geraldo Perdomo’s sacrifice fly in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Wilyer Abreu and Adley Rutschman answered with RBI hits before Gasper’s first Red Sox homer sneaked around Pesky’s Pole in the seventh and Abreu hit an RBI single.<\/p>\n
Mitch Bratt (1-2) pitched three innings of three-run ball for Arizona. Zack Littell gave up the final eight runs on 11 hits without a strikeout.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Diamondbacks’ RHP Merrill Kelly (8-10, 5.11 ERA) squares off against Red Sox LHP Ranger Su\u00e1rez (4-3, 3.25) in game two of the series on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Willson Contreras and Mickey Gasper homered, all nine Boston starters drove in at least one,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5495,5497,5494,1769,5,5496,4,27244,27243,185],"class_list":["post-782047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-around-maine","tag-app-in-the-community","tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","tag-associated-press","tag-baseball","tag-maine","tag-mlb","tag-publish-to-facebook-me","tag-publish-to-x-threads-me","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117117148444003634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782047","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=782047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}