WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS (9): 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2018 AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS (14): 1903, 1904, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1946, 1967, 1975, 1986, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2018 AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION CHAMPIONS (10): 1975, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018 AMERICAN LEAGUE WILD CARD (7): 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 @BOSTONREDSOXPR • HTTP://PRESSROOM.REDSOX.COM • @SOXNOTES 6, BOSTON RED SOX 5 Wednesday, May 5, 2021 • Fenway Park, Boston, MA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E PITCH COUNTS Detroit 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 6 11 1 RED SOX Boston 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 8 1 # (Strikes) Win: Soto (2-1) Loss: Whitlock (0-1) : Fulmer (1) Martín Pérez 91 (57) Time of Game: 3:47 (+0:37 delay) Attendance: 4,661 Weather: 49°, N at 7 mph Josh Taylor 4 (2) Tigers HR: Candelario (3) Hirokazu Sawamura 19 (12) Adam Ottavino 18 (12) Red Sox HR: Martinez (10) Matt Barnes 15 (10) Garrett Whitlock 23 (15) RED SOX NOTES (18-13) TIGERS Pitcher # (Strikes) THE RED SOX are 2-2 in extra innings this season (1-2 at home) and 9-4 when scoring first. 95 (56) 13 (9) Sox starters have thrown 5.0+ innings in each of the club's last 10 games (3.36 ERA, 21 ER/56.1 IP, 66 SO, 12 BB). 9 (5) Four Sox relievers had scoreless appearances: Taylor (0.1 IP), Sawamura (1.0 IP), Ottavino (1.0 IP), Barnes (1.0 IP). Jose Cisnero 10 (6) 30 (18) Have hit 11 HR in their last 5 games, after hitting 1 HR in their previous 5 games. 10 (7) J.D. MARTINEZ (1-for-3, R, HR, 2 RBI, 2 BB) hit a game-tying 2-run HR in the 7th inning...Was his 5th game-tying or go-ahead HR in the 7th inning or later with the Red Sox (previous: 7/14/19 vs. LAD, solo HR, 8th inning)...Is 8-for-19 (.421) with 3 HR and 8 RBI in his last 5 games. Is tied with Ronald Acuña Jr. for the major league lead...Leads the majors in RBI (29) and total bases (78), and leads the AL in XBH (20). This is the 16th time a Red Sox player hit 10+ HR in the club's first 31 games of a season, most recently in 2018 (Betts-12) and 2015 (Hanley Ramirez-10).

MATT BARNES (1.0 IP, 3 SO) struck out all 3 batters faced in a perfect 9th inning...Has struck out 49.2% of his batters faced this season (29 SO, 59 BF, 17.0 IP). Was his 10th perfect appearance this season...Has not allowed a run in his last 6 outings (5.2 IP; beginning 4/25)...14 of his 16 outings this year are scoreless.

MARTÍN PÉREZ (5.2 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 SO) tossed a season-high 5.2 IP for the 2nd straight start...Has recorded 13 SO and 2 BB in his last 2 starts (11.1 IP). Each of his 6 were on called strikes, tied for the most in a game in the majors this season (2 other occurrences). Held the Tigers to 1 run (0 ER) until allowing a 2-out, 2-run single in the 5th inning to JaCoby Jones, his final batter faced...Retired each of his first 8 batters faced in order before allowing a 2-out single in the 3rd inning (Greiner).

MARWIN GONZALEZ (2-for-5, R, RBI) hit an RBI single in the 10th inning...Has an RBI in each of his last 2 games, recording at least 1 hit in his last 3 (4-for-13).

XANDER BOGAERTS (1-for-4, 2 R, BB) scored on Christian Arroyo's groundout in the 2nd inning and Marwin Gonzalez's single in the 10th inning.

CHRISTIAN ARROYO (0-for-2, RBI, HBP) recorded an RBI on a groundout in the 2nd inning, giving the Red Sox a 1-0 lead...Was his 1st go-ahead RBI this season. Was removed from tonight's game due to a left hand contusion...X-rays were negative.

TIGERS NOTES (9-22)

THE TIGERS snapped their season-long 7-game losing streak... Are 2-0 in extra-inning games this s