Papi powers Sox to series win over Tribe

BOSTON — The Red Sox made Danny Salazar work and then they made him pay. Powered by another big day from David Ortiz, Boston picked up a 5-2 victory over the Indians on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park to win the three-game series.

Ortiz drove in three runs and collected four hits, including his 514th home run, to help the Red Sox chase Salazar after 109 pitches and 4 1/3 innings. Jackie Bradley Jr. extended his hitting streak to 27 games with a single to right that knocked Salazar out in the fifth.

Needing a triple for a cycle, Ortiz send a pitch from Austin Adams to the center-field triangle in the eighth. The crowd roared with anticipation of a possible three-base hit, but the baseball rattled around the wall and bounced into the stands for his second ground-rule double.

Salazar (4-3, 2.32 ERA) toiled through 40 pitches in the first, marking the most he had thrown in a single frame in his career. The early troubles paved the way for a two-run opening inning for the Red Sox, who took the lead for good, 3-2, when Ortiz delivered a run-scoring double in the second.

Aside from a two-run outburst in the second, Cleveland could not get much going against Red Sox righty Rick Porcello. In that inning, Porcello (7-2, 3.47 ERA) found himnself in a bases-loaded jam with two outs before surrendering a two-run single to Jason Kipnis. That was all the damage done against Porcello, who struck out five and scattered five hits in 5 2/3 …

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