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On February 23, Grapefruit League play started with an 8–5 win over the New York Yankees. On February 22, the Red Sox defeated the Northeastern Huskies, 6–0, in a seven inning exhibition game. On February 18, the team held its first full-squad workout. On November 28, senior vice president of player personnel Allard Baird was hired by the New York Mets. On November 20, the Padres traded RHP Colten Brewer to the Red Sox for infielder Esteban Quiroz.
Christian Vázquez had a third-inning grand slam and a sixth inning solo homer. Games ahead of Boston, as the Red Sox fell back to .500 (29–29) for the season. In the final game of the series, Boston led the entire way, with New York drawing no closer than 3–2 at the end of the fourth inning, en route to an 8–5 Red Sox win. Before the game, manager Alex Cora announced that Mookie Betts would be the team's leadoff hitter for the rest of the season, as he had been during 2018.
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The Red Sox allowed anyone under 18 years old to enter Fenway Park for free; all other tickets were only $5 each, with proceeds going to The Jimmy Fund. Boston then used seven relief pitchers, who did not allow any more runs. The offense tied the game in the fifth inning, and a home run by Xander Bogaerts in the seventh inning put Boston ahead, 7–6. With a depleted bullpen and Heath Hembree not available, Josh Smith closed out the victory for his first MLB save.
Mitch Moreland's three-run home run in the ninth inning provided the winning margin. A late Boston rally in the third game of the series came up a run short, as Seattle held on for a 6–5 win. Boston again rallied late in the fourth game, loading the bases with one out in the ninth, but fell two runs short, losing 10–8. During the series, only one Red Sox starting pitcher, Nathan Eovaldi in the second game, lasted five innings. Jhoulys Chacín got the start in the first game of this four-game series, retiring all six batters he faced while striking out four. Powered mainly by a four-run fourth inning, Boston went on to win, 6–1, while using seven pitchers.
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Rodriguez (10-4) tied his season-high for strikeouts and held the Dodgers to five hits in seven innings. He has won four straight decisions and is the only Boston pitcher with 10 victories this season. ■ Boston has two days off prior to playing the Yankees at London Stadium on June 29 and June 30, the first major league games to ever be played in Europe. The team is also off on July 1, the day after the London series concludes. D. Martinez each homered, with Bogaerts going 3-for-4 with three RBIs. This was the resumption of the suspended game from August 7, which was halted due to rain with no outs in the top of the 10th with no runners on base and the score tied, 4–4.
The second game of the series was a 5–1 Boston win, as starter Rick Porcello pitched eight scoreless innings for the win. The first game of the series was a 4–3 win by Toronto, after Boston had held leads of 1–0 and 3–2. The second game of the series was an 8–0 win by the Blue Jays, extending Boston's losing streak to five games. The Red Sox only collected two hits, one each by Brock Holt and Rafael Devers.
July
In the second and final game of the series, the Red Sox jumped out to a 4–0 first-inning lead. The Yankees scored two runs in the second, and it remained 4–2 until the seventh inning, when New York scored nine runs, giving them an 11–4 lead. Boston closed to 12–8 in the bottom of the eighth, and had the bases loaded with two outs, but there was no further scoring.
Trailing 2–1 after four innings of the first game of the series, Boston scored a single run in each remaining inning, for a 6–5 win. The winning run came on an infield single by Marco Hernández with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Start time of the second game of the series was delayed for 24 minutes by rain. The teams then traded early runs, and were tied 3–3 after three innings.
Bogaerts again drove in Betts in the seventh inning, giving the Red Sox what proved to be the winning run in a 4–3 victory. Brandon Workman got the save, the first of his MLB career. The final series of the season began with a 4–1 Baltimore win, as Boston's only run was driven in by Xander Bogaerts in the ninth inning. The final game of the season was a 5–4 Red Sox win, as Rafael Devers notched his 200th hit of the season. Eduardo Rodríguez, going for his 20th win of the season, had to settle for a no decision.
The Dodgers went on to score three runs in the 12th, giving Boston a 7–4 loss. In the opening game of the series, Boston scored four runs in the top of the first inning, and built a 7–1 lead en route to a 10–6 victory. Starting pitcher David Price limited the Blue Jays to four hits and two runs in six innings. Rafael Devers had two home runs and six RBIs, while Christian Vázquez went 3-for-5 with a homer. The second game of the series was tied, 3–3, after four innings.
The third game of the series was a 7–4 Boston win, with Nathan Eovaldi getting the win after holding the Rays to three runs in six innings. Christian Vázquez hit his 22nd home run of the season, going 3-for-5 with three RBIs. The Red Sox led, 4–0, midway through the fourth inning; Tampa Bay then scored six in the bottom of the fourth, and held Boston scoreless for the rest of the game. Eduardo Rodríguez got the win and improved his record on the season to 15–5. D. Martinez hit a pair of three-run homers, going 3-for-4 at the plate with seven RBIs. In the middle game of the series, the Red Sox had a 4–3 lead after four innings.
Boston completed the sweep on Sunday, coming back from a 6–0 deficit to record a 13–7 win. Devers and Sam Travis each homered, as Boston used seven pitchers, with Marcus Walden getting the win. Devers became the first MLB players to reach 100 RBIs on the season.
A one-out error by third baseman Rafael Devers put a runner on first. A single then put runners at the corners, and Nicky Delmonico followed with a three-run walk-off home run off of Ryan Brasier, giving Chicago the win, 6–4. Chris Sale got his first win of the season in the second game of the series, a 6–1 Boston win, allowing no runs and three hits in six innings pitched.
Cleveland took an early 3–0 lead in the first game of the series, with Boston evening the score, 3–3, at the end of four innings. Boston then scored six runs in the fifth, and went on to win, 12–5. The second game of the series had a 69-minute rain delay during the second inning. Scoreless until the sixth inning, Boston took a 3–0 lead, and held a 5–2 lead going into the ninth inning. Cleveland rallied for five runs in the ninth, with the tying runs being charged to Ryan Brasier, and Travis Lakins taking the loss as Boston fell, 7–5. The final game of the series featured 23 runs and 32 hits, with Cleveland winning, 14–9.
The loss, Boston's third in a row, left the team with a 44–40 record at the end of June, 11 games behind New York in the American League East standings. Boston got no closer than trailing by three runs, 6–3, after the fourth inning, as the Astros went on to win, 7–3. In the final game of the series, Houston had a 3–1 lead after three innings. In the fifth inning, Boston tied the game, 3–3, on a Michael Chavis solo home run, followed by a Mookie Betts double and Bogaerts RBI single.
San Diego tied the game with a run in the seventh, then Brock Holt's ninth-inning home run provided Boston's winning margin, 5–4. The Red Sox were unable to complete the sweep on Sunday, falling to the Padres, 3–1. Boston's run came on the 31st homer of the season by Martinez. In the first game of a four-game series, the Red Sox took a 4–3 lead into the bottom of the ninth.
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