Wilyer Abreu and Ceddanne Rafaela each hit a two-run home run to lead the Boston Red Sox to an 11-6 victory over the Texas Rangers on Friday in Arlington, Texas.
Rafael Devers added a solo home run and Connor Wong collected four singles for the Red Sox. Boston second baseman Nick Sogard added a two-run single in his major league debut.
Corey Seager hit two solo home runs among his three hits and had three RBIs and three runs for the Rangers. Marcus Semien added a two-run blast and Leody Taveras had a solo shot. All four homers came against Boston starter Kutter Crawford, who has allowed 12 in his past three starts.
Crawford (7-8) earned the win despite giving up five runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Texas has lost six of its past seven games and also saw its five-game home winning streak come to an end.
Texas starter Jose Urena (3-6) surrendered seven runs on eight hits in four-plus innings. He struck out two and walked none. Urena made his first start since June 5, when he held the Detroit Tigers to one run in 6 2/3 innings.
After Seager’s first home run gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead in the first, Abreu’s two-run homer in the second put Boston in front. Taveras and Seager went deep in the third inning for a 3-2 lead.
Boston scored four runs in the fourth to go ahead 6-3. Wong and Abreu hit RBI singles for the first two runs, and Sogard added a two-run single.
The Red Sox added a run in the fifth. Duran led off with a triple, ending Urena’s night, and he scored on Masataka Yoshida’s sacrifice fly off Jacob Latz.
Rafaela’s home run pushed the lead to 9-3 in the top of the sixth, but Semien answered with his two-run homer in the bottom half of the inning.
Seager drove in Carson Kelly with a sacrifice fly in the seventh to make it 9-6. Boston padded the lead when Devers homered and Dominic Smith doubled home Wong in the ninth inning.
–Field Level Media
