Garrett Crochet struck out 10 in six innings, Jarren Duran hit a two-run triple and the Boston Red Sox beat Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Boston rookie Roman Anthony added an RBI double off Kershaw as the Red Sox won for the third time in eight games since the All-Star break.\u00a0Boston won 10 in a row heading into the break.<\/p>\n
Crochet gave up two solo homers in the first. Shohei Ohtani went deep on the third pitch of the game for his 38th of the season, a day after\u00a0his streak of five straight games with a home run was stopped. <\/p>\n
One batter later, Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez launched one over the Green Monster.<\/p>\n
Crochet (12-4) quickly recovered, however, and allowed two runs or fewer for the 18th time in 22 starts this season. Aroldis Chapman got three outs for his 18th save, striking out pinch-hitter and former Red Sox star Mookie Betts to end it.<\/p>\n
Making his first regular-season start at Fenway Park, Kershaw (4-2) gave up four runs and six hits in 4 2\/3 innings with two strikeouts.<\/p>\n
The three-time Cy Young Award winner’s only previous start in Boston came\u00a0when the Red Sox beat the Dodgers in Game 1 of the 2018 World Series\u00a0on the way to winning the title.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
With the Red Sox trailing 2-0 in the second, Duran drove a pitch over center fielder Andy Pages\u2019 head to the wall for a two-run triple and then scored on Abraham Toro\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Duran had his first career game with two triples. The previous Red Sox player to do that was\u00a0Betts\u00a0during his 2018 AL MVP season.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
RHP Dustin May (6-6, 4.73 ERA) starts Sunday for the Dodgers in the series finale. Boston RHP Walker Buehler (6-6, 5.72) faces his former team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garrett Crochet struck out 10 in six innings, Jarren Duran hit a two-run triple and the Boston Red…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,2502,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-95816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114923290286118345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}