FINAL: Red Sox 14, Chicago White Sox 2 - Red Sox Win Easily in Onslaught of White Sox

The Red Sox (32-31) put on a clinic on both sides of the plate tonight, with a commanding 14-2 win over the lowly White Sox (15-48).

Boston made sure to pack the bats on the plane yesterday, as they accumulated 24 hits. They played some relatively small ball tonight, with only six of their hits being for extra bases. Rob Refsnyder got himself two doubles, and David Hamilton got one as well. Jarren Duran led off the game with a home run, and Enmanuel Valdez hit a three run shot in the fourth. Jamie Westbrook hit his first Major League home run, as was smiling from ear to ear as he rounded the bases. Five Red Sox batters had multiple RBI tonight, with Ceddane Rafaela leading the team with four.

I feel like I have said this a lot this season, but it was another outstanding start from Tanner Houck on the hill. He went five hitless innings to start the game, pitched seven in total, with two runs on three hits, no walks, and nine strikeouts. Cam Booser would replace him in the eighth, and he would pitch the rest of the game, throwing two scoreless innings and striking out three.

My Player of the Game: Ceddanne Rafaela - He continues his great rookie season, going 4-6 tonight with four RBI, bringing his rookie leading total to 37 on the year.

Tomorrows game is slated for another 8:10 p.m. first pitch. Probable starters for that one are Cooper Criswell (3-2, 3.92 ERA) and Garrett Crochet (5-5, 3.49 ERA).
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WHO: Red Sox (31-31) at Chicago White Sox (15-47)
WHEN: 8:10 p.m.
WHERE: Guaranteed Rate Field
SERIES TO DATE: 0-0, 2-4 in 2023
STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Tanner Houck (5-5, 1.85 ERA) vs. RHP Jake Woodford (0-1, 6.23 ERA)
TV/RADIO: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7

LIVE BOX

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RED SOX

Jarren Duran LF
Enmanuel Valdez 2B
Rob Refsnyder RF
Rafael Devers 3B
Tyler O'Neill DH
Dominic Smith 1B
Connor Wong C
David Hamilton SS
Ceddanne Rafaela CF

SP Tanner Houck 

OPPONENT

Zach DeLoach LF
Nicky Lopez 2B
Luis Robert Jr DH
Gavin Sheets RF
Andrew Vaughn 1B
Paul DeJong SS
Korey Lee C
Lenyn Sosa 3B
Duke Ellis CF

SP Jake Woodford

WHAT'S UP

Boston won yesterday’s series finale against the Braves, 9-0. It was their AL leading 8th shutout, 1 behind ATL for most in MLB. Rafael Devers (2-for-3, 3 R, 2 HR, 3 RBI, BB) hit his team-leading 12th and 13th HRs. Nick Pivetta (7.0 IP, 9 SO, 2 BB) allowed 1 hit and 0 runs in his longest start of the season. Jarren Duran (2-for-5, 3 R, 3B, HR, RBI) hit his Major League-leading 9th triple of the season and a solo HR.

Rafael Devers ranks among the AL leaders in OBP (7th, .380), SLG (5th, .576), and OPS (4th, .956)...He leads MLB 3rd basemen in SLG and OPS, and ranks 2nd in OBP. Devers’ 427 career XBH are most in Red Sox history prior to turning 28 years old...He’s 10 shy of tying Manny Ramirez (437) for 5th-most by a Dominican born player prior to age 28. Yesterday, he recorded his 17th career multi-HR game, tying Nomar Garciaparra for the 9th most in Red Sox history (T-7th: Dwight Evans and Mo Vaughn-22 games).

Among MLB catchers with at least 100 PA, Connor Wong ranks 2nd in AVG (.322), 5th in OBP (.371), and 8th in OPS (.832). Since 5/12, Wong has thrown out 7 of 17 attempted base stealers (41.2%)...His 7 runners caught stealing in that span rank 2nd in MLB (SEA’s Cal Raleigh-9 CS).

Kenley Jansen on Sunday recorded his 1,183rd career SO, tying Rollie Fingers for 6th-most all-time as a reliever. Jansen’s 429 career saves are 1 behind Craig Kimbrel (430) for 5th on the all-time list.

The Sox rank in the AL’s top 5 in triples (2nd, 18), doubles (T-2nd, 109), hits (4th, 515), total bases (4th, 861), SLG (5th, .407), OPS (5th, .720), and stolen bases (5th, 48).

The Red Sox have committed 6 errors in their last 6 games, after making just 1 error in their previous 10. Boston is tied with Oakland for the most errors in MLB this year (44)...They rank T-2nd in unearned runs allowed (40). BOS is 29-12 when allowing 0 unearned runs.