

Houck replaced Sale and fired five scoreless innings, holding the Rays down long enough for Boston's offense to get back in the game. It was a fluke injury - he slipped on second base while running out to his position in right field during the regular season finale - but it was bad enough to sideline him in the team's first two postseason games, and it limited him to DH in Game 2. Martinez missed the Wild Card Game and ALDS Game 1 with ankle sprain. Later in that inning, JD Martinez gave Boston the lead with a long and loud three-run home run to center. Xander Bogaerts and Alex Verdugo clubbed back-to-back home runs in the third inning, cutting the deficit to 5-4, then Enrique Hernández tied the game with a fifth inning solo homer. Rather than let the Rays run away with it, the Red Sox battled back.
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It's the first time ever a team's starters failed to complete two innings in the first two games of a postseason series (Eduardo Rodriguez went 1 2/3 innings in Game 1). They scored two runs in the top of the first inning only to watch Chris Sale give up a five-spot in the bottom half, including a grand slam to Jordan Luplow. Similar to ALDS Game 1, Friday's Game 2 started disastrously for the Red Sox. Hernández, Red Sox make history in comeback
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He worked 7 2/3 scoreless innings, striking out 10 without a walk while allowing just five hits.įor full takeaways on this game, click here. The Giants would later add a Kris Bryant home run as insurance and later add another shot from Brandon Crawford, though neither were really needed because starter Logan Webb was absolutely brilliant. The Giants jumped on top quickly in this one when Buster Posey hit a booming opposite-field, two-run shot on a 3-0 count in the first inning. There has never been a playoff series between two 106-plus win teams, nor had the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants ever faced off in an actual postseason series - until Friday night.

