Jarren Duran went 3-for-5 with a home run, three RBIs and three runs to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 10-3 win over the visiting Oakland Athletics on Saturday afternoon.
The Red Sox scored in each of the first six innings and logged 15 hits, their seventh straight game reaching double digits.
Triston Casas hit two doubles and scored twice, Christian Arroyo went 3-for-4 and Alex Verdugo added a homer.
James Paxton (5-1) allowed six hits across six innings of two-run ball. The only runs he allowed were on solo home runs by Manny Pina and Brent Rooker.
Brandon Walter pitched the final three innings, earning his first save of the year.
Aledmys Diaz, JJ Bleday and Cody Thomas all had two hits for Oakland.
Two hot hitters teamed up to lift Boston to a lead three batters into the bottom of the first. Duran lined a leadoff single to left center and stole second, moved into scoring position on a Masataka Yoshida grounder and scored on Justin Turner’s high base knock off the Green Monster.
Turner is on an eight-game hitting streak and has driven in runs in all eight of those games.
After Sam Moll relieved A’s opener Austin Pruitt (1-6) with two outs in the second, Duran crushed a two-run homer into the Monster Seats. Moll evaded further damage by getting Verdugo to fly out with the bases loaded to end the inning.
Paxton allowed just one hit before Pina led off the third with a solo shot. Boston got the run back in the bottom of the frame as Casas popped a double between two fielders and scored when Connor Wong hit a sacrifice fly two batters later.
In the fourth, Rafael Devers lined a two-out RBI double to left to score Yoshida with the seventh Red Sox run.
Rooker worked an 11-pitch at-bat and hit a solo homer to give Oakland a run back in the sixth. The Boston onslaught continued as Casas and Arroyo hit back-to-back doubles in the bottom of the frame, marking the sixth straight inning in which the Red Sox scored.
Pruitt, charged with four hits and four runs in 1 2/3 innings, started in place of Paul Blackburn (illness).
–Field Level Media
