Texas Rangers at Boston Red Sox

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Texas Rangers

34-35, 17-21 Away

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Boston Red Sox

28-39, 11-21 Home

Rafaela powers Red Sox to 10-1 rout of Rangers as Gray shines on mound

Willson Contreras sends HR over the Green Monster

Willson Contreras and Wilyer Abreu also homered for the Red Sox, who came in with an MLB-worst 10-21 record at home. Rafaela also had two doubles, with the second driving in a run as part of Boston’s four-run fifth inning.

Gray (8-1) allowed one run and three hits in the first and then retired 14 straight before giving up a hit to open the sixth to Joc Pederson, who led off the game with a single and scored on a hit by Wyatt Langford.

Gray struck out seven and walked none while improving to 6-0 in seven starts since being reinstated from the 15-day injured list on May 6. He lowered his ERA from 3.20 to 3.03.

Contreras hit his 14th home run in the first inning, which came after Abreu lifted a sacrifice fly that tied it at 1. Abreu launched a solo homer in the seventh, while Rafaela connected for a two-run shot in the eighth.

The mound matchup featured two pitchers who attended the same university (Vanderbilt) and were drafted in the first round exactly 10 years apart. Boston’s Gray was taken by the Athletics in 2011, while Jack Leiter was selected by the Rangers in 2021.

Leiter (3-6) allowed six runs — five earned — and eight hits in five innings. The right-hander struck out three and walked two while dropping his second straight start after winning back-to-back starts in late May.

Rangers outfielder Evan Carter was removed from Friday’s game with what the team described as right oblique soreness.

Up next Texas RHP Jacob deGrom (5-4, 3.18) opposes Boston LHP Ranger Suarez (2-3, 3.18) on Saturday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Foscue popped out to first.
	9th Inning	Duran struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Langford flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Kahnle relieved Coulombe
	8th Inning	Duran flied out to center.
	8th Inning	Contreras doubled to center, Abreu scored.

Statistics

$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	2
12	Ground Balls	6
8	Strikeouts	4
1	Runs Batted In	9
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	11
0	Stolen Bases	1
0	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	10
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	2
33	At Bats	34
0	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
13	Runners Left On Base	17
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	6
13	Fly Balls	26
0	Caught Stealing	0
124	Pitches	167
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
7	Total Bases	26
33	Plate Appearances	41
0.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
1	Extra Base Hits	9
0.6	Runs Created	10.2
.182	Batting Average	.324
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.212	Slugging Percentage	.765
.030	Secondary Average	.559
.182	On Base Percentage	.390
.394	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.155
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.2
0.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	11.0
12.0	Batter Rating	71.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	11.3
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.76	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.07
.030	Isolated Power	.441
0.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.75
.000	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.073
-.152	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.235
2.0	Runs Produced	19.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.8
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
65.3	MLB Rating	110.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0