Final: Red Sox 7, Rays 4

The Red Sox snapped a two-game losing streak and beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 7-4, erupting for four runs in the first inning and cruising from there.

Christian Vazquez drilled a three-run homer while J.D. Martinez added two RBI.

Nathan Eovaldi claimed his first win as a starter since last September, allowing three runs over six innings.

WHO: Red Sox (80-74) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (92-63)
WHEN: 1:05 p.m.
WHERE: Tropicana Field
SERIES TO DATE: Tampa Bay 2-0
SEASON SERIES TO DATE: Tampa Bay 11-6
STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Nathan Eovaldi  (1-0, 6.19) vs. LHP Ryan Yarbrough (11-4, 3.78)
TV/RADIO: NESN, WEEI 93.7 FM

IN-GAME OBSERVATIONS:

3:06    Eovladi gets the Rays 1-2-3 in the bottom of the fifth and does it on just eight pitches.

2:50   Rays have managed to put the leadoff man on base in each of the first four innings.

2:47   Strange game: the Rays seem motivated to hand the Red Sox the game -- errors, wild pitches, hit batsman, walks -- and the Red Sox seem intent on making it closer than it should be: six runners LOB, including four in scoring position.

2:25   Eovaldi has throw 66 pitches over the first three innings - not sustainable.

2:00  Third single of the inning for the Rays, as Kevin Kiermaier snaps an 0-for-22 skid with a run-scoring single. Nathan Eovaldi has allowed four hits and a walk in less than two innings of work.

1:30  Red Sox squander a chance and leave the bases loaded.

1:19  Three-run homer for Christian Vazquez, who has seven RBI on his last two homers.

 1:17 Three straight singles for the Sox -- Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts and J.D. Martinez -- creates a first run.

LINEUPS:



RED SOX

Bradley CF
Devers 3B
Bogaerts SS
Martinez DH
Vazquez 1B
Travis LF
G. Hernandez RF
Owings 2B
Centeno C

RAYS

Wendle 3B
Meadows RF
Pham LF
Choi DH
B. Lowe 2B
N. Lowe 1B
Adames SS
Kiermaier CF
Zunino C

WHAT'S UP: The Red Sox lost in extra innings for the second straight night and the third time in the last five games...Overall, they're just 4-9 in their last 13 games...Friday and Saturday night marked only the second time in their history that the Red Sox and Rays played consecutive extra-inning games...The teams also did so on July 25-26, 2005....Six of the last seven games between the teams at Tropicana Field have been decided by a single run....The Red Sox have played three straight games in which their starter has not allowed a run, although Saturday, in a bullpen games, starter Travis Lakins pitched just 1.2 innings...The Sox have hit 236 homers, two shy of the franchise record of 238 set in 2003....The left side combination of Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts have become just the second such pair to hit 30 or more homers and knock in 110 or more runs...Oakland's Miguel Tejada and Eric Chavez also did it in 2001....Rafael Devers has now hit more homers (31) than any other third baseman in franchise history and more extra-base hits (85) and is one double shy of tying Wade Boggs (51) for most doubles by a third baseman...Devers needs three homers in the final eight games to set a record for most homers by a Red Sox player before turning 23. That record is now held by Tony Conigliaro (32 in 1965)….The Red Sox are 6-4 in Nathan Eovaldi's 10 starts this season...Eovladi has allowed just three homers to righthanded hitters in 138 plate appearances...Joey Wendle is 2-for-3 lifetime against Eovaldi while Kevin Kiermaier is 2-for-8....J.D. Martinez is 6-for-9 with a homer against Kyle Yarbrough.