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05/15 21:30 CDT Mike Yastrzemski's 10th-inning single sends the Braves past the
Red Sox 3-2
Mike Yastrzemski's 10th-inning single sends the Braves past the Red Sox 3-2
By BILL TROCCHI
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) --- Mike Yastrzemski led off the 10th inning with a single to left
field to score automatic runner Ha-Seong Kim, and the major league-best Atlanta
Braves defeated the Boston Red Sox 3-2 on Friday night.
Didier Fuentes (3-0) pitched the 10th and retired Mickey Gasper on a line drive
to shortstop with two runners on to end the inning.
Rookie Tyler Samaniego (0-2) worked the 10th for the Red Sox, who have lost
four of five and have not scored more than three runs in a game during that
stretch.
Drake Baldwin and Michael Harris II homered for the Braves, who have won five
of six and improved to 15-7 at home.
Spencer Strider, in his third start this season, allowed one run in 5 1/3
innings. He was helped out by catcher Sandy Len, who threw out two Red Sox
base stealers. Strider has given up just one run in his last two starts.
Boston's Marcelo Mayer homered in the seventh to tie the game at 2-all.
Braves closer Raisel Iglesias stranded two runners in a 20-pitch ninth that
extended his scoreless streak to 13 2/3 innings this season and 26 1/3 dating
back to last season.
Boston got on the board in the sixth when Gasper's single drove in Carlos
Narvez.
Baldwin's home run in the first inning went in and out of the webbing of
leaping center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela's glove and landed over the wall.
Harris made it 2-0 with a 419-foot blast into the Braves' bullpen in
right-center. Both homers came off rookie Connelly Early, who lasted five
innings.
Up next
Braves RHP Bryce Elder (4-1, 1.81 ERA) will face Red Sox rookie Payton Tolle
(1-2, 2.78) on Saturday.
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