Red Sox hit 5 HRs, Wakefield beats Rays
BOSTON (AP)—Tim Wakefield(notes) became the oldest pitcher to win for Boston, and theRed Sox backed their 44-year-old knuckleballer with five home runs Wednesdaynight to rough up the Tampa Bay Rays 11-5.
Marco Scutaro(notes) hit two homers and Adrian Beltre(notes), David Ortiz(notes) and VictorMartinez(notes) also connected as warm temperatures on a late-summer night helped theball carry out of Fenway Park. Four of the shots came off Matt Garza(notes) (14-8).
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}}YAHOO.Sports.article_carousel_init(); Series at a Glance Tampa Bay 5 Boston 12 Mon, Sep 6 – Final Tampa Bay 14 Boston 5 Tue, Sep 7 – Final Tampa Bay 5 Boston 11 Wed, Sep 8 – Final
Wakefield (4-10) surpassed Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley, who was 43 whenhe got his last win for the Red Sox.
The Rays dropped to 2 1/2 games behind the AL East-leading Yankees. Boston isnine behind New York.
Wakefield allowed five runs on six hits and four walks in five innings. B.J.Upton(notes) hit a three-run homer for Tampa Bay.
Ahead 4-0 early, the Rays let Boston tie it through three innings. JasonBartlett’s(notes) RBI single in the fourth put Tampa Bay in front, but the Red Sox tookthe lead 7-5 and chased Garza with a three-run fifth.
Martinez tied it with a leadoff homer into the back of the Red Sox bullpen.Ryan Kalish(notes) greeted reliever Chad Qualls(notes) with a go-ahead double off theleft-field wall, a ball Carl Crawford(notes) might’ve caught if he hadn’t pulled up andplayed the carom. Kalish scored when third baseman Evan Longoria(notes) bounced a throwto first for an error.
Garza gave up nine hits and six runs in 4 1-3 innings. He came in with a 3-0with a 0.99 ERA in his last four starts.
Martinez’s RBI single off reliever Randy Choate(notes) made it 8-5 in the sixth.Scutaro’s second homer, his career-high tying fourth hit, made it 11-5 againstGrant Balfour(notes) in the seventh.
Longoria’s sacrifice fly had put the Rays ahead 1-0 in the first. Theyincreased it to 4-0 in the second on Upton’s homer, a drive that hit a billboardabove the Green Monster.
The Red Sox tied it by scoring two runs in both the second and third. Beltrehomered into the Monster seats after Ortiz walked, cutting it to 4-2 in thesecond. The homer gave Beltre 1,001 career RBIs.
Scutaro and Ortiz each hit solo shots into the left-field seats in thethird.
Boston’s Lars Anderson(notes) got his first two major league hits, both singles,and drove in a run.
NOTES: This was Scutaro’s first four-hit game with Boston. … The Red Soxtied their season-high with five homers. … Rays manager Joe Maddon saidright-handed starter Jeff Niemann(notes) “had a great workout. There’s nothing wrong.Once he gets his confidence back, he’ll throw like he did the last year and ahalf.” Niemann has given up 23 runs in 16 2-3 innings over three starts sincecoming off the DL from a strained shoulder on Aug. 25. … Maddon also said thatBalfour, on the DL for 32 games with a strained ribcage suffered horsing aroundwith pitching coach Jim Hickey before being activated Sept. 1, “is not quitewhere he had been.” … Scutaro was back at shortstop after playing second onTuesday because he has inflammation in the rotator cuff of his throwingshoulder, and the club wanted him to avoid longer throws. … Tampa Bay’s CarlosPena snapped 0-for-25 drought with a fifth-inning single.
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