BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Andruw Monasterio hit a grand slam as part of a 10-run ninth inning and the Boston Red Sox snapped a four-game skid with a 17-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Willson Contreras added a three-run homer and Caleb Durbin a two-run shot in the frame against Orioles outfielder Weston Wilson, after Monasterio’s drive had helped to chase reliever Keegan Akin in his season debut.<\/p>\n
When the ninth was finally over, Boston had scored more runs in one inning than it had managed in its first 26 games.<\/p>\n
The late power show came after Orioles starter Trevor Rogers (2-3) allowed three runs in 1 2\/3 innings, throwing 47 of his 62 pitches in the second. It continued a three-start stretch in which his ERA has ballooned from 1.89 to 4.75.<\/p>\n
Garrett Crochet (3-3) struck out seven over six shutout innings, the first four coming while the game was still competitive.<\/p>\n
Two starts after the ugliest outing of his Red Sox career \u2014 an 11-run performance over 1 2\/3 innings at Minnesota \u2014 Crochet looked every bit the ace Boston traded for in December 2024 and signed to a $170 million, six-year extension in March 2025.<\/p>\n
He allowed three hits, walked two and threw 57 of 90 pitches for strikes while lowering his ERA about 1 1\/2 runs to 6.30. It was his first scoreless outing since six clean frames on opening day in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
Contreras finished with five RBIs and Durbin had three, Monasterio and Ceddanne Rafaela had three hits, and Connor Wong clubbed a three-run double in the fifth off Albert Suarez.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Red Sox left-hander Connelly Early (1-1, 2.88 ERA) makes his 10th career start and first in Baltimore in Sunday’s series finale. He’ll face Orioles righty Kyle Bradish (1-2, 3.96).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Andruw Monasterio hit a grand slam as part of a 10-run ninth inning and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-630770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}