Red Sox Rally Past Tigers in Back-and-Forth Fenway Finale
BOSTON (Interstat) — The Boston Red Sox scored five runs over the seventh and eighth innings to erase a deficit and beat the Detroit Tigers 8-6 on Monday afternoon at Fenway Park.
Detroit led 6-3 after scoring single runs in the third, fourth and sixth innings. Boston responded with three in the seventh to tie it, highlighted by a two-run single from Ceddanne Rafaela and a tying RBI single from Carlos Narváez. Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s two-run single in the eighth provided the decisive runs.
Riley Greene’s two-run double in the ninth brought the tying run to the plate for Detroit, but Aroldis Chapman stranded two runners for his fourth save. Garrett Whitlock earned the win in relief. Tyler Holton took the loss.
The Tigers had 10 hits to Boston’s 12 before a crowd of 34,880. The game took 3 hours, 10 minutes. Boston improved to 9-13, while Detroit fell to 12-11.