Overview
- Boston beat Chicago 2-1 to complete a three-game sweep and extend the Red Sox’s recent hot stretch.
- Patrick Sandoval made his first major-league start in two years after Tommy John surgery, working 4 1/3 innings and allowing one run.
- Caleb Durbin’s two-run homer was Boston’s only extra-base hit and provided the decisive runs in a game with limited offense.
- Boston’s bullpen allowed two hits over 4.2 innings, retired the final 12 batters in order, and Aroldis Chapman closed for his 19th save.
- MLB reduced Willson Contreras’s suspension to five games and he served the first game, while Chicago’s offense went cold and the loss left the White Sox tied with Cleveland atop the AL Central.