BOSTON, United States -- Nelson Cruz's tiebreaking,
10th-inning single helped Tampa Bay overcome a six-run deficit Monday, sending
the visiting Rays past the Boston Red Sox 11-10 in a wild Labor Day matinee.
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Cruz
capped a three-RBI day by lining a single to right off Garrett Whitlock (7-3)
to score Randy Arozarena, and pinch hitter Brandon Lowe looped a single to
plate Cruz with the crucial markers.
Collin
McHugh (6-1) pitched out of trouble in the ninth and got pinch hitter Kevin
Plawecki to ground out with the bases full for the final out for the AL
East-leading Rays (87-51).
Rookie
Wander Franco notched his first career four-hit game -- 4-for-6 with three runs
-- while Cruz and Yandy Diaz each produced three of the visitors' 19 hits.
Franco's
first-inning triple extended his on-base streak to 36 games, tying him with
Mickey Mantle (1951-52) for the second-longest in major league history by a
player under 21. Frank Robinson (1956) holds the mark of 43.
Rays
starter Ryan Yarbrough surrendered seven runs and eight hits in two innings.
Taylor
Motter doubled, tripled and scored twice, and Hunter Renfroe notched three hits
and two RBIs for Boston (79-61).
Starter
Chris Sale toiled over 3 2/3 innings, yielding 10 hits and five runs -- one
earned -- while fanning six and walking one.
In
the first inning, Franco socked a one-out triple off the center field wall, and
Cruz singled him in.
J.D.
Martinez's RBI single to center tied it in the 47-minute first frame, which saw
plate umpire Manny Gonzalez leave after taking a foul ball off his mask.
Boston
put up six runs in the second. Motter, Renfroe, Rafael Devers and Alex Verdugo
each drove in a runner and Bobby Dalbec doubled for two more as the home side
pounded Yarbrough for a 7-1 lead.
Verdugo
got under Cruz's drive but lost it in the sun with the bases full and two outs
in the fourth. The ball bounced off Verdugo's glove in center, allowing three
to score. Second baseman Motter's relay throw sailed high above third to score
Cruz for a 7-5 margin.
Jordan
Luplow's RBI single in the sixth trimmed the deficit to 7-6, but Boston got the
tally back on Renfroe's single.
Arozarena
drove in another unearned run in the seventh to make it 8-7. Boston's Jonathan
Arauz hit his third home run, a solo shot in the bottom of the inning, to
increase the gap to two.
Cruz
rocked his 28th homer leading off the eighth, and Austin Meadows forced extra
innings with an inside-the-park homer off the wall in center leading off the
ninth.
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