Red Sox top Dodgers 8‑4 behind Bennett, Abreu

LOS ANGELES (Interstat) — Jake Bennett pitched 5 2/3 innings, allowing three earned runs on six hits with four strikeouts, and Wilyer Abreu had two hits, including a home run and an RBI, to lead the Boston Red Sox to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday at Dodger Stadium. Bennett improved to 7-4 as Boston won its second straight in the series and improved to 60-51. The Dodgers dropped to 69-43. Boston scored two in the first and three in the third before adding one in the sixth and two in the eighth. The Dodgers scored three in the second and one in the seventh on Andy Pages’ RBI double. Caleb Durbin drove in a run, and Masataka Yoshida singled home Ceddanne Rafaela during Boston’s early outburst. Both teams recorded nine hits. Emmet Sheehan took the loss, falling to 4-8. Attendance was 46,834 and the game lasted 3:09.