BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Jarren Duran hit a three-run homer, Jake Bennett gave up a run over five innings to earn the victory in his major league debut and the Boston Red Sox beat the Houston Astros 3-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Struggling DH Roman Anthony 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 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 for his first big-league strikeout in the first inning.<\/p>\n
Aroldis Chapman, the fourth reliever, got the final three outs for his sixth save, and 373rd of his career.<\/p>\n
Astros starter Mike Burrows (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
Astros RHP Spencer Arrighetti (3-0, 2.00 ERA) is set to face Red Sox LHP Connelly Early (2-1, 2.84) in the middle game of the three-game series on Saturday.<\/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":275445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[92298,101979,101976,88211,101978,101977,34030,101980,44042,23681,202,196,42094,88829,89919,942,82,84,83,99620,57925],"class_list":["post-275444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-alex-cora","tag-aroldis-chapman","tag-astros-red-sox-score","tag-carlos-correa","tag-chad-tracy","tag-craig-breslow","tag-jake-bennett","tag-jarren-duran","tag-mike-burrows","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","tag-product-40811-ap-rhode-island-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}