TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Trevor Story hit a tiebreaking single in a three-run ninth inning and the Boston Crimson Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-3 on Saturday night time to maintain tempo in a crowded American League playoff race.
Boston remained two video games behind the New York Yankees for the highest AL wild card and is a recreation forward of Cleveland and Houston for the second of these three spots.
Tampa Bay has dropped 4 consecutive sequence, and eight straight video games to the Crimson Sox.
Rays third baseman Junior Caminero dedicated his second error of the sport within the ninth. Ceddanne Rafaela reached second when Caminero mishandled a grounder, organising Story’s go-ahead single. Masataka Yoshida added an insurance coverage run with a single, and Romy Gonzalez drove in one other with a sacrifice fly.
Alex Bregman and Yoshida every had two hits and an RBI, whereas Nathaniel Lowe added a sacrifice fly.
Garrett Whitlock (7-3) labored a scoreless eighth for the win. Aroldis Chapman earned his thirty first save.
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