{"id":171179,"date":"2025-09-21T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171179\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:19:07","slug":"story-hits-go-ahead-single-in-9th-and-red-sox-top-rays-6-3-to-keep-pace-in-playoff-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171179\/","title":{"rendered":"Story hits go-ahead single in 9th and Red Sox top Rays 6-3 to keep pace in playoff chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Story hit a tiebreaking single in a three-run ninth inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-3 on Saturday night to keep pace in a crowded American League playoff race.<\/p>\n<p>Boston remained two games behind the New York Yankees for the top AL wild card and is a game ahead of Cleveland and Houston for the second of those three spots.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay has dropped four consecutive series, and eight straight games to the Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Rays third baseman Junior Caminero committed his second error of the game in the ninth. Ceddanne Rafaela reached second when Caminero mishandled a grounder, setting up Story\u2019s go-ahead single off Jesse Scholtens (0-1).<\/p>\n<p>Masataka Yoshida added an insurance run with a single, and Romy Gonzalez drove in another with a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Bregman and Yoshida each had two hits and an RBI, and Nathaniel Lowe added a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Whitlock (7-3) worked a scoreless eighth for the win. Aroldis Chapman earned his 31st save.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Harrison, acquired from San Francisco in June as part of the trade package for Rafael Devers, made his first start for the Red Sox. The left-hander allowed one run on four hits and struck out five over five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Yandy Diaz extended his recent tear with two hits for the Rays, including an RBI single that tied the score in the seventh. Nick Fortes doubled in a run and Jake Mangum singled in another.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Jarren Duran produced Boston\u2019s first run in the third by hitting a single, stealing second and coming around on two wild pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox improved to 12-4 in their last 16 road games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Boston rookie left-hander Connelly Early (1\u20130, 0.87 ERA) starts the series finale Sunday night against RHP Joe Boyle (1-3, 4.64).<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/have-new-device-get-our-free-boston-25-news-weather-apps\/PDC6X7UKOFDBVPV5YJHG3CX36I\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE Boston 25 News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE Boston 25 News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Boston 25 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Boston25News\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boston25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/video\/live-stream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch Boston 25 News NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch Boston 25 News NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trevor Story hit a tiebreaking single in a three-run ninth inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[33557,13196,8731,33559,852,98958,28640,7095,102537,28642,102535,51874,9878,96729,28631,363,58545,369,39906,375,28624,28632,5284,99,40915,974,28646,102536],"class_list":["post-171179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alex-bregman","tag-aroldis-chapman","tag-boston","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-cleveland","tag-connelly-early","tag-garrett-whitlock","tag-houston","tag-jake-mangum","tag-jarren-duran","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-joe-boyle","tag-junior-caminero","tag-kyle-harrison","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mlb","tag-nathaniel-lowe","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nick-fortes","tag-rafael-devers","tag-red-sox","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-san-francisco","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-trevor-story","tag-yandy-diaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}