Red Sox win 10th straight, sweep Rays

BOSTON (AP) — Ceddanne Rafaela hit a two-run homer, Brayan Bello pitched one-run ball into the seventh inning and the Boston Crimson Sox prolonged their successful streak to 10 video games with a 4-1, series-sweeping victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.

Rafaela, who hit a walk-off, two-run homer for Boston on Friday, hit his 14th homer of the season within the sixth inning. Trevor Story added a go-ahead single within the sixth.

Boston final had a 10-game win streak in July 2018 and heads into the All-Star break in third place within the aggressive AL East, behind Toronto and the New York Yankees.

Tampa Bay’s Chandler Simpson prolonged his hitting streak to 16 video games, a membership report for a rookie. The Rays misplaced for the eleventh time in 14 video games and closed out their highway journey to Minnesota, Detroit and Boston with a 2-8 report.

The 26-year-old Bello (6-3) gave up six hits, struck out 5 and didn’t situation a stroll over 6 1/3 innings. He was coming off his first nine-inning full sport in his earlier begin. All-Star Aroldis Chapman struck out the ultimate three batters for his seventeenth save.

Boston moved forward 1-0 when Rays third baseman Junior Caminero was known as for obstruction together with his foot blocking the bag on a pickoff play, permitting Marcelo Mayer to attain.

The Rays snapped an 18-inning scoreless stretch within the fourth inning, tying the sport on Josh Lowe’s sacrifice fly.

Ryan Pepiot (6-7) gave up 4 runs, three earned, in six innings.

Rafaela hit a 3-2 fastball within the sixth from Pepiot that sailed simply over the Inexperienced Monster, bouncing off a tabletop within the entrance row, after Story’s run-scoring single.

Story is profitable in 16 steal makes an attempt this season. The final Crimson Sox participant to open a season going 16 for 16 was Jacoby Ellsbury in 2008.

Rays RHP Taj Bradley (5-6, 4.60 ERA) is slated to begin Friday at house in opposition to Baltimore after the All-Star break.

The Crimson Sox haven’t introduced a begin for the staff’s collection opener in Chicago on Friday. RHP Collin Rea (7-3, 3.91) is about for the Cubs.