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 (8): 1975, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2007, 2013, 2016 AMERICAN LEAGUE WILD CARD (7): 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 @BOSTONREDSOXPR • HTTP://PRESSROOM.REDSOX.COM • @SOXNOTES BOSTON RED SOX 9, TEXAS RANGERS 4 Wednesday, May 24, 2017 • Fenway Park, Boston, MA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E PITCH COUNTS Texas 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 4 7 3 RED SOX Boston 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 1 x 9 12 1 # (Strikes) Win: Sale (5-2) Loss: Dyson (1-5) Save: None Chris Sale 97 (63) Time of Game: 2:59 Attendance: 36,089 Weather: 58°, wind E at 9 mph Joe Kelly 21 (14) Rangers HR: Napoli (11; 396 ft) RANGERS Red Sox HR: None # (Strikes) Martin Perez 113 (65) RED SOX NOTES (24-21) Sam Dyson 20 (12) Austin Bibens-Dirkx 34 (18) THE RED SOX earned their 3rd straight win, their 2nd-longest winning streak of the season (also 4/15-18, 4)...Have scored 32 runs in their last 3 games, their fi rst set of 3 consecutive games with 9+ runs scored since 5/9-12/16 (4)...Have scored a ML- leading 6.6 runs per game since 5/6 (16 games)...The club has won 33 of their last 34 games when scoring 6 or more runs. Reached base in 9 consecutive PA in a 7-run 9th inning, turning a 3-1 defi cit into an 8-3 lead...Have out-scored opponents 95-55 in the 7th inning and after. Mitch Moreland and Josh Rutledge drove in runs with consecutive pinch hits, the club’s fi rst such pair since 9/5/16 at SD (Chris Young HR and Aaron Hill 2B). MITCH MORELAND (2-for-2, 2 R, RBI) drove in a run with a pinch-hit single in the 7th and singled again in the 8th, extending his hitting streak to 6 games (.360/9- for-25) and improving to 16-for-32 (.500) in pinch-hit situations since the start of 2014...Has driven in a run in each of his last 5 games (8 total RBI), tying Hanley Ramirez (4/28-5/2) for the longest streak by a Red Sox hitter this season...Is the 2nd-longest streak of his career (6, 7/26-31/16). CHRIS SALE (7.1 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 3 ER, BB, 6 SO) struck out 6, reaching 101 SO and joining Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Curt Schilling, and Roger Clemens as the only pitchers since 1900 with 100+ SO through 10 starts of any season (source: ESPN Stats & Info). Extended his scoreless innings streak vs. TEX to 22.0 IP before allowing an unearned run in the 4th (allowed 2 ER in the 5th)...Did not allow a hit until the 5th. Became the fi rst Red Sox pitcher to allow 3 or fewer ER in 7.0+ IP in each of his fi rst 6 home starts since Pedro Martinez in 2000 (10 starts). SAM TRAVIS (2-for-4, R) made his major league debut, starting at 1B and singling in the 5th and 7th innings, his fi rst 2 ML hits...Became the fi rst Sox hitter to record 2 hits in his ML debut since Will Middlebrooks on 5/2/12 vs. OAK, and the fi rst Sox fi rst baseman to do so in the last 100 seasons. MOOKIE BETTS (2-for-4, R, BB, 2 RBI) singled in the 3rd to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead, his team-leading 7th go-ahead RBI this season and 50th since 2015... Added another RBI single in the 8th...Has reached in all of his 15 career games vs. TEX (.364/24-for-66), and 44 of his last 45 vs. AL West clubs, hitting in 42 of those. Has hit .395 (15-for-38) this season with RISP...Since the start of last season, leads the AL with a .363 clip with RISP (65-for-179). XANDER BOGAERTS (2-for-5, R, 2B) singled to the third baseman with 2 outs in the 6th inning...Is batting .321 (18-for-56) with 2 outs this season...Has hit safely in 12 of his last 13 games at Fenway Park (.383/18-for-47)...Leads the majors with 243 hits at home since the start of 2015. JOSH RUTLEDGE (1-for-2, R, RBI) tied the game with the team’s 2nd consecutive pinch hit in the 7th inning...Since 2015, is 11-for-29 (.379) after entering the game as a sub...Has hit safely in 10 of his last 12 games with an AB (.333/12-for-36). DUSTIN PEDROIA (1-for-4, R, BB 2 RBI) singled in 2 runs in the 7th...Has hit safely in his last 6 games (10 hits) and driven in at least 1 run in each of his last 4 (6 RBI)... Is 14-for-37 (.378) with RISP this year...Since 8/9/16, leads the AL with a .450 clip with RISP (36-for-80)...Has reached safely in 25 of his last 26 games vs. AL West teams. DEVEN MARRERO (1-for-2, R, SB) has hit safely and scored in each of his 4 home games this year, the 2nd-longest streak by a Red Sox hitter this season...Has hit in his last 5 games with an AB at Fenway, a career-long streak (.313/5-for-16)...Stole his 3rd career base, 1st since 9/23/15 vs. TB...All 3 of his career SB have come at Fenway. RANGERS NOTES (24-23) THE RANGERS have lost 3 of their last 4 games following a 2017 ML-best 10 consecutive wins...Fell to 2-5-1 in road series this year, dropping their fi rst series since a 3-game set at SEA from 5/5-7...Lost for the 3rd time in 12 games (9-3) when leading entering the 7th inning and for the 11th time when leading at any point. Allowed BOS to score 7 runs in the the 7th inning, tied for the most TEX has allowed in a single inning this season (3x, last in the 7th inning on 5/6 at SEA). MIKE NAPOLI (2-for-4, R, HR, RBI) hit his 11th HR of the year in the 5th inning, a solo shot off Chris Sale that gave TEX a 2-1 lead...Has 6 HR and 10 RBI in his last 11 games (.324/.400/.811)...Has 8 hits in his last 16 AB vs. LHP with a 2B and 4 HR (.500/.556/1.313)...Recorded his 8th multi-hit contest and 2nd in his last 3 games. Has 34 career HR at Fenway Park, tied with Jacoby Ellsbury for the 2nd-most at the venue among active players (Pedroia-70). MARTIN PEREZ (6.1 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 4 SO) has tossed 4 consecutive quality outings (3.16 ERA, 9 ER/25.2 IP)...Threw a season-high 113 pitches, his 2nd-most and 2 shy of his career high (115 pitches over 8.1 IP 8/11/13 at HOU)...Allowed only 3 BOS batters to advance into scoring position. JOEY GALLO (1-for-4, RBI) recorded his 31st RBI this year in the 5th inning, tying Nomar Mazara for the team lead...Was his 1st RBI in a game without a HR since 4/24/17 vs. MIN (1 RBI)...Has 4 RBI in his last 4 games and 13 RBI in his last 14...Was 1-for-1 with RISP and has a .286 AVG (10-for-35) with RISP this year. SHIN-SOO CHOO (1-for-4, RBI) recorded his 20th RBI of the season with an 8th-inning single...Extended his hitting streak vs. BOS to 8 games, batting .382 (13-for- 34) during that time...Has posted a .320/.402/.524 batting line over 27 career games at Fenway Park, hitting safely in 23 of those contests. RYAN RUA (1-for-3, R, 2B) hit his 4th 2B of the year...Has doubled in back-to-back games for the 2nd time in his career (also 2 games, 7/25-26/15)...Is batting .500 (8-for-16) with 3 2B, HR, and 3 RBI over his last 8 games...Has hit .353 (6-for-17) in his last 5 road games after going 1-for-15 (.067) in his fi rst 10 this year. DELINO DESHIELDS (1-for-3, 2 R, BB, 2B) hit his 3rd 2B of 2017 in the 8th inning and scored on Choo’s single...Is batting .324 (11-for-34) in the 7th inning or later this year...Has hit .444 (16-for-36) with 10 runs scored over his last 10 games...Scored 2+ runs in 2 straight games for the 2nd time this year (also 2 games, 4/26-28)..