Boston at Houston — MLB October 16, 2021

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Final

Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
BOS	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	11	0
HOU	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	5	8	0

Decisions

Win N. Eovaldi BOS

5.1 IP · 5 H · 3 ER · 3 K · 3.75 ERA

Loss L. Garcia HOU

1.0 IP · 2 H · 5 ER · 2 K · 3.30 ERA

Highlights

Red Sox open ALCS Game 2 with a BANG! J.D. Martinez launches a first-inning GRAND SLAM!

The Red Sox got on the board early in a big way during Game 2 of the ALCS, going up 4-0 in the 1st thanks to a grand slam from J.D. Martinez.

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	BOS	HOU
Top 1st J.D. Martinez homered (360 ft.) to deep right, Kyle Schwarber, Rafael Devers and Alex Verdugo scored	4	0
Top 2nd Rafael Devers homered (349 ft.) to right, Kevin Plawecki, Christian Arroyo and Kiké Hernández scored	8	0
Top 4th Kiké Hernández homered (351 ft.) to deep left	9	0
Bottom 4th Kyle Tucker doubled to left center, Yordan Alvarez scored, Carlos Correa to third	9	1
Bottom 4th Yuli Gurriel singled to right, Carlos Correa and Kyle Tucker scored	9	3
Bottom 9th Yuli Gurriel homered (321 ft.) to left	9	4
Bottom 9th Jason Castro homered (431 ft.) to deep center	9	5

Box score

Boston

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
K. Schwarber 1B	4	1	1	0	1	3	.266
B. Dalbec PR-1B	0	0	0	0	0	0	.240
E. Hernández CF	4	2	2	1	0	1	.250
R. Devers 3B	4	2	1	4	1	1	.279
X. Bogaerts SS	5	0	2	0	0	2	.295
A. Verdugo LF	4	1	2	0	1	0	.289
J. Martinez DH	5	1	2	4	0	1	.286
H. Renfroe RF	4	0	0	0	0	3	.259
K. Plawecki C	2	1	0	0	1	0	.287
C. Vázquez C	1	0	0	0	0	1	.258
C. Arroyo 2B	4	1	1	0	0	0	.262
Totals		9	11		4	12

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
N. Eovaldi W	5.1	5	3	3	1	3	81
A. Ottavino	0.2	1	0	0	0	1	18
G. Whitlock	2.0	0	0	0	1	2	33
D. Hernandez	0.2	2	2	2	0	2	22
R. Brasier	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	4

Houston

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
J. Altuve 2B	5	0	0	0	0	0	.278
M. Brantley LF	4	0	0	0	0	0	.311
A. Bregman 3B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.270
Y. Alvarez DH	3	1	1	0	1	0	.277
C. Correa SS	4	1	1	0	0	1	.279
K. Tucker RF	4	1	2	1	0	1	.294
Y. Gurriel 1B	4	1	2	3	0	0	.319
C. McCormick CF	3	0	0	0	0	3	.257
A. Diaz PH	1	0	0	0	0	1	.259
M. Maldonado C	2	0	0	0	0	1	.172
J. Castro PH-C	1	1	1	1	1	0	.235
Totals		5	8		2	8

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
L. Garcia L	1.0	2	5	5	3	2	33
J. Odorizzi	4.0	7	4	4	0	5	82
B. Taylor	1.2	1	0	0	0	3	22
Y. García	1.1	0	0	0	1	2	24
R. Stanek	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	12