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WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS (8): 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 2004, 2007, 2013 AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS (13): 1903, 1904, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1946, 1967, 1975, 1986, 2004, 2007, 2013 AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION CHAMPIONS (9): 1975, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2017 AMERICAN LEAGUE WILD CARD (7): 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 @BOSTONREDSOXPR • HTTP://PRESSROOM.REDSOX.COM • @SOXNOTES TAMPA BAY RAYS 12, BOSTON RED SOX 6 Saturday, April 28, 2018 • Fenway Park, Boston, MA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E PITCH COUNTS Tampa Bay 0 2 2 0 1 1 1 1 4 12 18 1 RED SOX Boston 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 6 12 1 Pitcher # (Strikes) Win: Yarbrough (1-1) Loss: Price (2-3) Save: None David Price 85 (56) Heath Hembree 32 (19) Time of Game: 3:52 Attendance: 35,795 Weather: 60°, wind E at 12 mph Matt Barnes 9 (7) Rays HR: Span (2; ITPHR), Ramos (4), Gómez (4), Field (1) Brian Johnson 48 (33) Red Sox HR: Devers (4) RAYS Pitcher # (Strikes) RED SOX NOTES (19-7) Yonny Chirinos 53 (31) Ryan Yarbrough 48 (36) Chaz Roe 10 (9) THE RED SOX fell to 19-7 through their fi rst 26 games, having lost 5 of their last 7. José Alvarado 16 (12) Is tied for the 2nd-best 26-game start in club history (22-4 in 1946)...Also went 19-7 in 1904, 1940, 1994, and 2002. Sergio Romo 30 (17) Fell to 8-3 at home, 11-2 when scoring fi rst, and 12-3 when hitting at least 1 HR. Allowed a season-high 12 runs on a season-high 18 hits, snapping a streak of 14 straight games with 4 or fewer runs allowed...Have allowed more than 4 runs just 4 times this season (last 10, 4/11 vs. NYY). Had not allowed 12+ runs since 9/28/17 vs. HOU (12)...Had not allowed 18+ hits since 8/25/17 vs. BAL (21). Their 6-run margin of defeat marked their worst loss since 9/28/17 vs HOU (12-2)...Snapped a streak of 28 straight games without a loss by more than 3 runs, the majors' longest active streak entering today. Had been the only team in the majors that hadn't lost a game by 4+ runs this year...The only other season since 1908 in which the Red Sox had not lost any of their fi rst 25 games by more than 3 runs was 1967 (28 G). Scored a single run in each of the fi rst 5 innings of the game...Erased 3 separate defi cits, having trailed 2-1, 4-2, and 5-4. Surrendered a season-high 4 HR...Have allowed 9 HR in the last 3 games after giving up 14 in their fi rst 23 games. Fell to 12-2 this season when scoring 5 or more runs...Was just their 3rd loss in their last 43 games with 5+ runs scored. RAFAEL DEVERS (3-for-5, R, HR, 2 RBI) hit a game-tying solo HR to left fi eld off LHP Ryan Yarbrough in the 5th inning. Was his 4th HR of the season, the last 2 of which have come off of LHP (also 4/18 at LAA, grand slam off Tyler Skaggs)...4 of his 14 career HR have come vs. LHP. Was his fi rst game-tying HR of the season...6 of his fi rst 14 career HR have tied the game or given the Red Sox a lead (last 9/24/17 at CIN). Also drove in a run with a single in the 9th, his 3rd hit of the game...Was his third 3-hit game of the season (last 4/19 at LAA). Drove in his 19th and 20th runs of the year, tying J.D. Martinez for the team lead...Has 14 RBI in 15 career games vs. TB. ANDREW BENINTENDI (3-for-5, 2 R, 2 2B) singled and doubled twice in his 2nd 3-hit game of the season (also 4/15 vs. BAL). Has 2 multi-hit games in his last 3 contests, and 8 this season...The Red Sox had won his last 10 multi-hit games prior to today. Marked his 5th career game with multiple 2B, fi rst since doing so in consecutive games from 9/13-14/17 vs. OAK. Has multiple hits in 5 of his last 7 games at Fenway Park...In 10 games at the venue this season, has hit .359 (14-for-39) with 6 2B and 2 3B. 21 of his 22 hits this season have come against RHP...Is a career .290 hitter (176-for-606) vs. righties. HANLEY RAMIREZ (2-for-3, RBI, 2 BB) reached base a season-high 4 times (2 BB, 2 singles)...Marked his most times on base since 7/7/17 at TB (4). Tied the game with his 17th RBI of the season on a 4th-inning single...Has 4 hits and 3 RBI in 6 AB vs. Ryan Yarbrough...Hit a walk-off, 12th-inning single off Yarbrough on 4/5. Reached in 4 PA with RISP (2-for-2, 2 BB)...Has reached base in 19 of 33 PA with RISP this season, batting .500 (13-for-26) with a .576 OBP. Leads the team with 11 multi-hit games, and is batting .326 (29-for-89) with a .396 OBP...In 16 games vs. AL East clubs, is batting .339 (20-for-59). In his last 14 games vs. TB, is batting .327 (18-for-55) with a .413 OBP. XANDER BOGAERTS (1-for-4, 2 RBI) gave the Red Sox a lead with a sacrifi ce fl y in the 1st inning, and drove in another with a 3rd-inning single. Has 11 RBI this season, all vs. TB...3 of those RBI have given the Red Sox the lead...His 11 RBI vs. TB this season are the 2nd-most by an AL player vs. any opponent (Matt Davidson, 12 RBI vs. KC). Has hit safely in each of his last 5 games (4/5-present), all vs. TB at Fenway Park (.444/8-for-18). Has hit safely in his last 11 home games, the AL's longest active home hitting streak (.429/18-for-42, 8 R, 5 2B, 2 HR, 14 RBI) and tied for the longest by a Red Sox hitter since the start of 2017. Leads the majors this season with 16 hits, 11 RBI, and 30 total bases in 9 games vs. TB (.457/16-for-35, 8 2B, 2 HR)...Since his fi rst full season in 2014, his 90 hits vs. TB rank 2nd only to Mookie Betts (91). DAVID PRICE (5.2 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 5 SO) set season highs in runs (6), ER (5), and BB (4, tied). Extended his streak of scoreless innings vs. TB to 20.0 before allowing a 2-run inside-the-park HR to Denard Span in the 2nd inning. MOOKIE BETTS (1-for-2, 2 R, 2B) reached base twice, including his team-leading 11th 2B (also HBP)...Scored twice and leads the majors with 29 runs. Was removed from the game as a precaution due to right hamstring tightness...Is day-to-day. The last Red Sox hitter with as many runs through 26 team games was Johnny Pesky in 1946 (31). His 29 runs in April set an AL record for the month (source: Elias)...The only hitters with as many runs in a single April in the Modern Era (since 1900) are Bryce Harper (32 in 2017) and Larry Walker (29 in 1997). Leads the majors with 141 doubles since 2015, ranking 3rd in the majors in that time with 344 runs and 585 hits. Is a career .326 hitter in 70 games vs. TB, going 91-for-279 with 61 runs and 22 2B...Has reached base in 19 of his last 20 games vs. TB. In 10 games at home this season, is batting .400 (14-for-35) with 17 runs, 9 2B, HR, 10 RBI, and 7 BB/6 SO...Is a career .312 hitter (333-for-1,066) at Fenway. Has reached base to lead off 10 of his last 17 games, scoring on 9 of those occasions...Has reached base in 22 of 24 games this season. RAYS NOTES (12-13) THE RAYS set season highs in runs (12), home runs (4), hits (18), and extra base hits (8) during their 8th consecutive win. Is their longest winning streak since winning 9 straight contests from 7/12-26 in 2014...Marks the 6th time in Rays history they have put together a winning streak of 8+ games. Are out-scoring opponents 63-34 and out-hitting their competition 101-72 during the streak. Are the 1st team with an 8+ game winning streak and 8+ game losing streak in the same season before 5/1 since the 1985 Minnesota Twins (source: Elias). Came away with a victory for the 1st time in franchise history when allowing a run in each of the fi rst 5 innings (source: Elias)...Elias also notes that the team had previously won just 3 games when allowing a run in each of the fi rst 4 innings, last doing so on 6/26/11 at HOU. Won their 4th consecutive series, the club's longest streak since 2016 (4 series, 6/3-16).