{"id":650751,"date":"2026-05-06T03:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650751\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:59:23","slug":"rafaela-homers-and-drives-in-four-runs-as-the-red-sox-rout-the-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650751\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafaela homers and drives in four runs as the Red Sox rout the Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> homered and drove in four runs, and the Boston Red Sox<\/a> beat the Detroit Tigers<\/a> for the second straight night with a 10-3 victory on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Framber Valdez<\/a> (2-2) allowed a career-high 10 runs before being ejected in the fourth inning for hitting Trevor Story<\/a>, which caused both benches to empty, though no punches were thrown. He also matched a career worst by allowing three homers.<\/p>\n

Willson Contreras<\/a> and Wilyer Abreu<\/a> also homered for the Red Sox, who had lost four of five before coming to Detroit. Boston is 4-2 against the Tigers this season.<\/p>\n

Matt Vierling<\/a> homered for Detroit, which has lost five of eight.<\/p>\n

Brayan Bello<\/a> (2-4) allowed one run on four hits in seven innings after replacing opener Jovani Moran<\/a> for the second inning. He walked one and struck out seven after losing his last three starts.<\/p>\n

Boston took a 3-0 lead in the first on Rafaela\u2019s three-run homer, but the Tigers got two runs off Moran in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n

After a scoreless second, the Red Sox used a walk and five straight singles to take an 8-2 lead and set up the fourth-inning drama.<\/p>\n

Contreras hit Valdez\u2019s first pitch an estimated 449 feet over the Red Sox bullpen in left-center and stayed at the plate to admire its flight. Two pitches later, Abreu hit a 109-mph line drive down the right-field line for Boston\u2019s third homer of the night.<\/p>\n

Valdez\u2019s next pitch was a 94-mph fastball that hit Story in the back. Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler<\/a> and plate umpire Adam Beck quickly got between Story and Valdez, causing both benches to empty, but Story never attempted to get near Valdez.<\/p>\n

As everyone returned to the dugouts and bullpens, Valdez was ejected by third-base umpire Dan Iassogna.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The teams finish the three-game series on Wednesday night, with Tigers RHP Jack Flaherty<\/a> (0-2, 5.90)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Dave Hogg, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Ceddanne Rafaela homered and drove in four runs, and the Boston Red Sox beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-650751","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\/650751","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=650751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}