Purple Sox beat the Rockies 5-2 behind Sonny Grey’s 11 strikeouts
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Grey (9-1) allowed a run on six hits with three walks in seven innings. The best-hander’s 11 strikeouts have been a season excessive and he matched his season excessive with 93 pitches — 65 for strikes.
DENVER (AP) — Wilyer Abreu and Nate Eaton drove in two runs every to again an 11-strikeout efficiency from Sonny Grey and the Boston Purple Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 5-2 on Tuesday evening.
Grey (9-1) allowed a run on six hits with three walks in seven innings. The best-hander’s 11 strikeouts have been a season excessive and he matched his season excessive with 93 pitches — 65 for strikes.
Justin Slaten pitched a scoreless eighth, and Garrett Whitlock gave up Ezequiel Tovar’s solo homer within the ninth to shut it out.
Eaton, who went 3 for 4, walked to guide off the sport towards rookie left-hander Sean Sullivan (0-2) making his third begin. Eaton stole second base and scored on Abreu’s triple.
Eaton had a two-out RBI single for a 2-0 lead within the second inning, and Abreu homered for the tenth time to make it 3-1 within the fifth.
Eaton had an RBI double off Zach Agnos earlier than scoring on Ceddanne Rafaela’s single for a 5-1 benefit within the sixth.
Willi Castro hit his sixth dwelling run — a one-out 435-foot shot to the higher deck in proper area within the second — for Colorado’s first run.
Sullivan allowed three runs on 5 hits and 5 walks in 5 innings. Agnos gave up two runs on 5 hits in three innings.
The Purple Sox improved to 20-20 on the highway someday after blowing a lead within the ninth for the primary time this season on Jake McCarthy’s bases-loaded triple in a 3-2 loss.
Purple Sox LHP Ranger Suarez (3-3, 2.93 ERA) begins Wednesday’s rubber recreation reverse Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (1-7, 7.36).
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