{"id":345354,"date":"2026-07-19T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345354\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:34:00","slug":"red-sox-rally-for-7-6-victory-over-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345354\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox rally for 7-6 victory over Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Wilyer Abreu hit two home runs \u2013 the second a go-ahead, two-run shot in the seventh inning that gave him four homers in two games \u2014 and the Boston Red Sox rallied for a 7-6 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday to extend their winning streak to 12 games.<\/p>\n

Abreu also hit two in the nightcap of a doubleheader sweep Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Victor Mesa Jr. had a go-ahead, two-run homer and Jonny DeLuca added a solo shot for the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n

Abreu\u2019s shot off Garrett Cleavinger (2-3) capped a four-run inning that wiped out a 6-3 deficit. Ceddanne Rafaela had an RBI double and Masataka Yoshida had a run-scoring ground out in the inning.<\/p>\n

Ryan Watson (1-0) pitched two innings for his first major league victory and Aroldis Chapman got the final three outs for his 21st save.<\/p>\n

Trailing 3-2 in the fourth, the Rays jumped ahead with three runs. Mesa Jr. hit his homer into Tampa Bay\u2019s bullpen and Yandy D\u00edaz added an RBI single.<\/p>\n

DeLuca\u2019s homer over the Green Monster made it 6-3 in the seventh.<\/p>\n

Making his second start after missing last season recovering from Tommy John surgery, Boston\u2019s Patrick Sandoval gave up five runs in five innings.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay took a 2-0 edge in the second when Ryan Vilade scored on second baseman Seigler\u2019s throwing error and Nick Furias had an RBI single, but Jahmai Jones\u2019 two-run homer tied it in the bottom half after Andruw Monasterio correctly challenged a called 3-2 strike that would have ended the inning.<\/p>\n

Rays starter Ian Seymour lasted just three innings, allowing three runs and two homers after giving up a career-high tying six runs in his previous start.<\/a><\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rays LHP Shane McClanahan (8-5, 2.83 ERA) was set to face RHP Sonny Gray (11-1, 2.54) in the series finale Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Wilyer Abreu hit two home runs \u2013 the second a go-ahead, two-run shot in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2205,28,115,29645,110,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":["post-345354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}