{"id":345850,"date":"2026-07-20T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345850\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:56:56","slug":"red-sox-beat-the-rays-6-1-for-their-13th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345850\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox beat the Rays 6-1 for their 13th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Willson Contreras hit a two-run homer, Sonny Gray gave up one run and five hits over six innings, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-1 on Sunday for their 13th win in a row.<\/p>\n

The streak is tied for the second-best in franchise history with a 13-game run in July 1948. The franchise’s longest was 15 games in June 1946.<\/p>\n

Gray (12-1) struck out five and issued four walks in his ninth consecutive quality start. He has not allowed more than three runs since April 14.<\/p>\n

After Victor Mesa Jr. hit an inside-the-park homer<\/a> in the second inning to give the Rays a 1-0 lead, Andruw Monasterio tied it in the bottom half with an RBI double.<\/p>\n

Boston scored three more in the third without a hit. Jahmai Jones came home on a passed ball and Wilyer Abreu scored on a fielder’s choice. Junior Caminero’s throw struck Abreu in the back as he slid into home, allowing all runners to advance safely.<\/p>\n

Contreras scored from third on Romy Gonzalez’s ground out to make it 4-1.<\/p>\n

Contreras swung on the first pitch he saw in the fifth for a two-run, 414-foot homer to the triangle in Fenway’s center field.<\/p>\n

Rays starter Shane McClanahan (8-6) allowed six runs (four earned) on five hits in five innings. He struck out three and walked three.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The Rays head to Toronto for a four-game set with the Blue Jays, with RHP Nick Martinez (8-2, 2.65 ERA) taking the hill against RHP Dylan Cease (6-4, 2.56).<\/p>\n

The Red Sox continue their 10-game homestand with a three-game series against the Orioles. LHP Payton Tolle (5-6, 3.11 ERA) starts opposite RHP Shane Baz (4-9, 4.19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Willson Contreras hit a two-run homer, Sonny Gray gave up one run and five hits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345851,"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-345850","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\/345850","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=345850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}