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Red Sox fall to Astros 3-1; Cam Smith gets go-ahead 2-run single in 10th
BOSTON (AP) — Cam Smith hit a two-out, two-run single off the Green Monster in the 10th inning, and the Houston Astros beat the Boston Red Sox 3-1 on Sunday to take the series.
Jarren Duran hit a solo homer for the Red Sox, his second homer in three games after belting a three-run shot in Friday’s victory.
Boston went 0 for 11 and stranded 13 runners.
Boston starter Ranger Suárez left the game after four scoreless innings due to right hamstring tightness. Coming off eight scoreless innings of one-hit ball with 10 strikeouts in his last start, he gave up three hits, struck out three and walked one.
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Astros first baseman Christian Walker was back in the lineup and went 2 for 3 after leaving Saturday’s win because he was hit in the helmet by a fastball. He went 6 for 10 in the series.
Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez was just 1 for 14 in the series with a single.
After Jose Altuve bounced into a rare 6-2-5 double play, Zack Kelly (0-2) reloaded the bases with a walk before Smith’s hit. Brice Matthews was cut down at the plate after Smith was in a rundown.
Bryan Abreu (1-2) worked two innings for the victory, getting Ceddanne Rafaela to bounce into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded.
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Making his first start since going on the injured list with mid-back inflammation April 13, Houston’s Cody Bolton went 2 1/3 scoreless innings.
Duran homered into the right-field seats in the fifth and Houston tied it on Matthews’ sacrifice fly in the sixth.
Astros haven’t named a starter for their Monday home game against the Dodgers. RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2-2, 2.87 ERA) is set to start for Los Angeles.
Red Sox LHP Payton Tolle (0-1, 3.38) is slated to start the opener of a three-game series Monday in Detroit against Tigers’ ace LHP Tarik Skubal (3-2, 2.70).
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