{"id":830765,"date":"2026-07-28T05:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830765\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:43:19","slug":"ceddanne-rafaelas-grand-slam-sends-boston-red-sox-past-athletics-for-18th-victory-in-20-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830765\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceddanne Rafaela\u2019s grand slam sends Boston Red Sox past Athletics for 18th victory in 20 games"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> hit his first major league grand slam and the Boston Red Sox<\/a> beat the Athletics<\/a> 4-2 after being held without a hit through five innings Monday night.<\/p>\n

Connor Wong<\/a> doubled leading off the sixth for the first hit against Athletics<\/a> rookie starter Jack Perkins<\/a> (2-6), who was pulled after walking Willson Contreras<\/a> with two outs. Jos\u00e9 Suarez walked Wilyer Abreu<\/a> to load the bases, setting the stage for Rafaela\u2019s 11th homer and a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Curtis Mead<\/a> struck out looking his first time up in his Boston debut and then left after he was hit on the wrist by a pitch his second time up. The Red Sox acquired Mead from the Washington Nationals<\/a> on Saturday night for rookie pitcher Connelly Early<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tyler Soderstrom<\/a> extended his hitting streak to 10 games when he launched his 17th homer to give the Athletics<\/a> a 1-0 lead two batters into the bottom of the first against Payton Tolle<\/a>. Jonah Heim<\/a> homered for the 10th time to cut it to 4-2 in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Tolle (6-6) allowed two runs and five hits in 5 1\/3 innings. He struck out seven and walked one to help the surging Red Sox (55-50) win for the 18th time in 20 games. <\/p>\n

The A\u2019s have lost three straight and 24 of 30.<\/p>\n

Justin Slaten<\/a> got the final two outs in the sixth for Boston, and Jovani Mor\u00e1n and Garrett Whitlock<\/a> each pitched a perfect inning. <\/p>\n

Aroldis Chapman<\/a> gave up a leadoff single to Colby Thomas<\/a> in the ninth, and pinch-hitter Nick Kurtz<\/a> reached on a one-out fielding error at second by Anthony Seigler<\/a>. Chapman struck out Henry Bolte<\/a> and Alika Williams<\/a> for his 25th save in 27 opportunities.<\/p>\n

Perkins walked three and was charged with two runs on one hit in 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Red Sox LHP Jake Bennett<\/a> (6-3, 2.58 ERA) starts Tuesday opposite Athletics<\/a> LHP Gage Jump<\/a> (3-6, 4.42).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Ceddanne Rafaela hit his first major league grand slam and the Boston Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-830765","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\/830765","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=830765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}