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- Updated: August 20, 2016
DETROIT — Rick Porcello returned to Comerica Park and quieted his old team, holding down the Tigers for seven innings as the Red Sox roughed up rookie Michael Fulmer for a 10-2 win Friday night.
Boston’s seventh win in its last eight games closed its gap to a half-game behind Toronto in the American League East. Detroit, meanwhile, fell seven games behind Cleveland in the AL Central, though the Tigers remain 3 1/2 games behind Baltimore for the second AL Wild Card spot.
A year and a half after Detroit traded Porcello to Boston for Yoenis Cespedes, Porcello (17-3) made his first outing at Comerica Park since the trade and outpitched the rookie hurler the Tigers acquired when they traded Cespedes to the Mets last summer. The Tigers’ former first-round Draft pick racked up eight strikeouts, one shy of his season high, while allowing just four hits, and he moved into a tie with Toronto’s J.A. Happ for the Major League lead in wins.
“It was weird being on the other side,” Porcello said, “but it helped a lot that I pitched against them last year [in Boston] and that we came here last year. Today didn’t feel quite as strange, so I was able to settle in and enjoy it.”
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J.D. Martinez accounted for half of the hits off Porcello, including a two-run homer in the second inning for Detroit’s only scoring. By then, however, the Red Sox already had four runs off Fulmer (10-4), courtesy of two-run home runs from David Ortiz and Jackie Bradley Jr.
“They had my number tonight,” Fulmer said.
Once the Red Sox churned out four consecutive two-out singles for two runs in the sixth, they had put up more runs against Fulmer than any team this season. Fulmer gave up six runs on 10 hits over 5 2/3 innings.
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