Ceddanne Rafaela and David Hamilton combined for five hits, three runs and four RBIs out of the bottom two spots in the batting order and the Boston Red Sox spoiled Rafael Devers’ reunion with a 7-5 road victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday.
Meeting just five days after completing a blockbuster trade with Devers at the heart, the Red Sox rallied from a 3-0 deficit to win for the eighth time in their last nine games.
While Boston improved to 3-1 since the deal, the Giants lost for the third time in four games, with Devers going 0-for-5 in the opener of a three-game series.
Hamilton had a two-run homer in the third inning to cut into the 3-0 deficit.
Rafaela delivered a game-tying single in the fourth and a solo shot in the sixth that gave the visitors the lead for good at 6-5. Boston scored in every inning from the third through the seventh.
The homers were Rafaela’s seventh and Hamilton’s third. Rafaela, batting eighth, finished 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs, while Hamilton, slotted ninth, went 2-for-4 with one run and two RBIs.
Jarren Duran and Wilyer Abreu each had two hits for the Red Sox, who out-hit the Giants 11-7.
Boston’s Brennan Bernardino (3-2), who took over for starter Hunter Dobbins with no outs in the fifth and completed the inning, was credited with the win.
Bernardino joined with Zack Kelly, Justin Wilson, Greg Weissert, Garrett Whitlock and Aroldis Chapman for five scoreless innings of relief. Chapman struck out two of three men he faced in the ninth — including Devers — for his 14th save.
Dobbins was charged with all five Giants runs, four earned, in his four-plus innings. He walked five and struck out one.
Boston pitchers walked eight batters. The Giants left eight stranded.
Sean Hjelle (1-1), who served up Rafaela’s homer, took the loss in relief of Hayden Birdsong, who allowed five runs (four earned) and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings. Birdsong walked one and struck out four.
Heliot Ramos and Casey Schmitt had two hits apiece, Patrick Bailey walked three times and Willy Adames reached base three times and scored twice for the Giants. San Francisco twice scored runs on bases-loaded, no-out, double-play grounders.
–Field Level Media
