Eugenio Suarez hit a three-run home run to help the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks complete a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with a 7-5 victory Sunday.
The Diamondbacks trailed 4-3 until Suarez hit his 20th home run of the season in the sixth inning against Boston starter Tanner Houck. Suarez, who had four hits Sunday, collected eight hits and 10 RBIs in the series.
The Diamondbacks also received a solo home run from Geraldo Perdomo (No. 3 of the year) in the ninth.
The victory stretched Arizona’s winning streak to six games. All six victories have come on the road.
Houck (8-9) allowed six runs on seven hits in six innings. He walked four and struck out two. Boston is winless in Houck’s last seven starts.
Triston Casas, Rafael Devers and Tyler O’Neill each homered for Boston, which led 4-0 after four innings.
Casas, who struck out four times in Saturday’s 4-1 loss to Arizona, hit a solo home run in the first inning, Devers hit a three-run homer in the fourth and O’Neill struck for a solo home run against Justin Martinez in the ninth. Devers’ home run was the 200th of his major league career.
After allowing the home run to O’Neill, Martinez retired the next three batters to collect his sixth save.
Arizona starter Merrill Kelly (4-0) earned the win despite allowing Boston’s first two home runs. He gave up four runs on seven hits in six innings and recorded five strikeouts.
The homers by Casas (No. 8) and Devers (No. 28) handed Boston a 4-0 lead, but Arizona scored three times in the fifth. Adrian Del Castillo scored on Perdomo’s bases-loaded groundout, Suarez scored on Corbin Carroll’s sacrifice fly and then Jake McCarthy’s RBI single drove in Luis Guillorme to make it a 4-3 game.
Pavin Smith singled and Del Castillo walked before Suarez belted the three-run homer that put the Diamondbacks in front 6-4. Perdomo’s home run extended the lead to 7-4 before O’Neill’s 23rd homer capped the scoring.
Boston, now on a three-game losing skid, slipped to 29-35 at home.
–Field Level Media
