Boston at Tampa Bay — MLB August 31, 2021

5 – 8

Final

Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
BOS	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	5	10	2
TB	0	1	6	0	0	1	0	0		8	5	1

Decisions

Win R. Yarbrough TB

6.0 IP · 5 H · 2 ER · 3 K · 4.50 ERA

Loss B. Peacock BOS

2.1 IP · 2 H · 5 ER · 0 K · 19.29 ERA

Save A. Kittredge TB

0.2 IP · 0 H · 0 ER · 2 K · 1.31 ERA

Highlights

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	BOS	TB
Top 1st Xander Bogaerts singled to right, J.D. Martinez scored	1	0
Bottom 2nd Randy Arozarena homered (403 ft.) to deep left	1	1
Bottom 3rd Wander Franco singled to right, Kevin Kiermaier scored, Francisco Mejía to third, Nelson Cruz to second. Francisco Mejía scored, Nelson Cruz to third, Wander Franco to second on Bobby Dalbec's fielding error	1	3
Bottom 3rd Nelson Cruz scored, Wander Franco to third on wild pitch	1	4
Bottom 3rd Austin Meadows singled to shallow right, Wander Franco scored	1	5
Bottom 3rd Yandy Díaz doubled to right, Austin Meadows and Randy Arozarena scored	1	7
Top 6th Kyle Schwarber homered (419 ft.) to deep center	2	7
Bottom 6th Francisco Mejía hit sacrifice fly to center, Yandy Díaz scored	2	8
Top 8th Rafael Devers singled to left center, Kyle Schwarber scored, Yairo Muñoz to second	3	8
Top 9th Kyle Schwarber singled to center, Jonathan Araúz scored, Hunter Renfroe to third	4	8
Top 9th J.D. Martinez singled to right, Hunter Renfroe scored, Kyle Schwarber to second	5	8

Box score

Boston

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
H. Renfroe RF	5	1	2	0	0	1	.260
K. Schwarber LF	4	2	2	2	1	0	.267
J. Martinez DH	5	1	2	1	0	1	.286
X. Bogaerts SS	1	0	1	1	0	0	.298
Y. Muñoz 2B	3	0	0	0	0	0	.091
T. Shaw PH	1	0	0	0	0	1	.191
R. Devers 3B	5	0	1	1	0	1	.274
B. Dalbec 1B	4	0	1	0	0	2	.238
A. Verdugo CF	4	0	0	0	0	1	.284
C. Vázquez C	3	0	1	0	1	0	.253
J. Araúz 2B-SS	3	1	0	0	1	0	.175
Totals		5	10		3	7

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
B. Peacock L	2.1	2	5	5	2	0	48
S. Gonsalves	2.2	2	2	2	1	3	53
P. Valdez	3.0	1	1	0	1	2	44

Tampa Bay

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
B. Lowe 2B	5	0	0	0	0	2	.233
N. Cruz DH	2	1	0	0	2	0	.268
W. Franco SS	3	1	1	1	1	0	.273
A. Meadows LF	4	1	1	1	0	0	.234
R. Arozarena RF	3	2	1	1	0	2	.274
J. Wendle 3B	4	0	0	0	0	0	.273
Y. Díaz 1B	3	1	1	2	0	0	.259
K. Kiermaier CF	3	1	0	0	1	1	.243
F. Mejía C	2	1	1	1	0	0	.264
Totals		8	5		4	5