Overview

• Pfaadt improved to 13-8 after six innings of one-run ball with six hits allowed, no walks and seven strikeouts.
• Arizona’s three-run second inning turned on a Trevor Story error, with Jake McCarthy driving in two and Geraldo Perdomo adding a sacrifice fly.
• Red Sox starter Lucas Giolito took the loss after five-plus innings, yielding seven hits and four runs, two of them unearned.
• Defensive highlights featured Ceddanne Rafaela robbing Corbin Carroll of a homer and Blaze Alexander taking one away from Alex Bregman.
• Boston fell 1.5 games behind the Yankees for the top AL wild card and 4.5 back of Toronto in the AL East; Brayan Bello faces Ryne Nelson in the series finale.