{"id":642278,"date":"2026-05-02T04:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642278\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:17:26","slug":"jarren-duran-hits-three-run-home-run-as-boston-red-sox-beat-houston-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642278\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarren Duran hits three-run home run as Boston Red Sox beat Houston Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Jarren Duran<\/a> hit a three-run homer, Jake Bennett<\/a> gave up a run over five innings to earn the victory in his major league debut and the Boston Red Sox<\/a> beat the Houston Astros<\/a> 3-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Struggling DH Roman Anthony<\/a> had three hits for the Red Sox, who had lost the final two games of their just completed 3-3 road trip. He entered hitting .208.<\/p>\n

Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy, who replaced fired manager Alex Cora last weekend, got the victory in his first Fenway Park game.<\/p>\n

Carlos Correa<\/a> homered into the Green Monster seats and had three hits for Houston, which has lost five of its last seven games.<\/p>\n

Bennett (1-0), a 25-year-old left-hander who was called up from Triple-A Worcester, gave up a run on five hits, striking out three and walking two. He fanned slugger Yordan Alvarez<\/a> for his first big-league strikeout in the first inning.<\/p>\n

Aroldis Chapman<\/a>, the fourth reliever, got the final three outs for his sixth save, and 373rd of his career.<\/p>\n

Astros starter Mike Burrows<\/a> (1-4) gave up eight hits and three runs over six innings.<\/p>\n

Duran homered over Boston\u2019s bullpen, making it 3-1 in the third after Correa\u2019s homer in the top half.<\/p>\n

While the teams were taking batting practice, a small plane flew around Fenway pulling a banner imploring the Red Sox to fire chief baseball officer Craig Breslow and owner John Henry to sell the team.<\/p>\n

The Astros swept the Red Sox in a three-game series in Houston during the first week of the season.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Astros RHP Spencer Arrighetti<\/a> (3-0, 2.00 ERA) is set to face Red Sox LHP Connelly Early<\/a> (2-1, 2.84) in the middle game of the three-game series on Saturday. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Ken Powtak, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Jarren Duran hit a three-run homer, Jake Bennett gave up a run over five innings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-642278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}