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- Updated: June 1, 2016
BALTIMORE — Mookie Betts hit a career-high three home runs on a five-RBI night that highlighted the Red Sox’s 6-2 win over the Orioles on Tuesday night at Camden Yards.
Boston shortstop Xander Bogaerts extended his hitting streak to 24 games with a seventh-inning single.
Betts went deep twice off Orioles starter Kevin Gausman, including a leadoff shot, and then again off reliever Dylan Bundy in the seventh. He became the first Red Sox player with a three-homer game since Will Middlebrooks on April 7, 2013. Betts is also the first Red Sox leadoff hitter to go deep three times in one game.
• Mookie posts first 3-HR game of career
“He’s been having a solid year for us — you look at 35 RBIs out of the leadoff spot coming into tonight,” said Red Sox manager John Farrell, “so I can’t say that we were waiting for him to turn it on. But tonight was one of those rare nights that a player has.”
Dustin Pedroia followed Betts’ first homer with another off Gausman, who has allowed three homers in back-to-back starts. It marked the second time the Red Sox have hit back-to-back home runs this season and the first time they led off with consecutive homers since July 27, 2011, against the Royals.
In his season debut, Boston starter Eduardo Rodriguez allowed two runs on six hits over six innings against his former club. O’s center fielder Adam Jones went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
“I think it’s pretty obvious that we’re kind of struggling right now, but hopefully we can just kind of turn it around and even this series up,” Gausman said. “They are the best team in baseball right now, so you have to be on your game and if you’re not, it’s tough against this team, against this lineup, against their bullpen.”
The win ensured that the Red Sox (32-20) would close the four-game set Thursday in sole possession of first place in the American League East, dropping Baltimore to 28-22.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDBogaerts keeps hit streak intact: Facing Bundy, Bogaerts blooped a single to left, just out of the reach of diving left fielder Nolan Reimold to extend his his streak to 24 games.
“I knew I had [to get] that to live another day,” said Bogaerts, who finished 1-for-5 and is batting .393/.430/.607 (42-for-107) over the course of his streak. More >
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