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The Sox come back to beat the Braves July 26, 2023 ... Brayan Bello and Spencer Strider basically just took turns dominating each others’ opposing lineups for the first five innings. Even with two defensive miscues from Rafael Devers at third, Bello stayed calm, cool, and collected, evading every jam. After a shaky first at-bat, Strider settled in and just mowed down batter after batter. It really became a contest of chicken, who was going to blink first? It was Bello, giving up a three-run shot to Ozzie Albies in the sixth inning. Then, the bottom of the inning happened. Strider left a slider right in Devers’ wheelhouse down low, as he golfed a shot down the line and around the Pesky Pole to put the Sox on the board. Joe Jacques tosses a perfect 1-2-3 top of the seventh, and upstep the Sox once again. Triston Casas does what he’s been doing all month and smashes a solo homer off the back wall in center field. Two homers in two frames for the Sox. Connor Wong followed that right up with a single, and Strider’s night was done. Now, they go to work. Ozzie Albies makes a supremely costly fielding error at second base trying to turn two himself, resulting in turning none himself. Duran grounds out, but Justin Turner throws his barrel onto the ball and drills a two-run double high off the monster. An Adam Duvall solo HR in the eighth gave some insurance and despite a small scare in the ninth, Kenley Jansen locked the save and win down. The Red Sox just beat baseball’s best team in a two-game series in two very different ways. They’re 15-5 since June 30th, the best record in baseball. The best batting average, OPS, and second-best runs per game in the entire month of July. |
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