Those are the most ever by a Rays team and the most ever by Red Sox pitching.
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Odorizzi went three innings and gave up two runs on four hits. In three appearances with the Rays he has worked 8 2/3 innings allowing just one run.
Koji Uehara and Craig Kimbrel closed things out in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively. The throw beat him to the plate by a good 15 feet, but Pedey danced and dived and ended up touching the plate while the ball got knocked out of the catcher’s glove. “It’s the position that we wanted to be in coming into this last week of September”. He added a single in the second inning and finished the game. The Rays, like the rest of major league baseball, held a moment of silence for the pitcher before their game; cameras caught tears streaming down Ortiz’s face.
The Rays treated the home crowd to a display of futility at the plate never seen before in a major-league game: 11 straight strikeouts. The Red Sox had gone scoreless as well since the third, so when Matt Barnes finally broke the streak of strikeouts, and the Rays put men on base, the Sox had no wiggle room to work with.
Hall of Famer Tom Seaver struck out 10 straight batters all by himself. Miller then scored on an RBI single by Dickerson.
Kevin Kiermaier was hit in his left wrist by a Eduardo Rodriguez change up to lead off the third. Mookie Betts drove home an early Boston lead in the first after a Bogaerts walk and an Ortiz single, while Tampa evened the score with a Richie Shaffer sacrifice fly after a Mikie Mahtook double and Maile single. The Rays announced he left the game with a bruised left wrist.
Boston left eight men on base and gave Tampa the opportunity to get back in the game, although the threat did not seem risky given Rodriguez’s 13 strikeouts over five and a third innings. He allowed just three hits while striking out 13 batters (career high) while walking just two and hitting a batter.
The Tampa Bay Rays could use a win after losing five of their last six games.
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The Red Sox scored the victor in the 10th when Dustin Pedroia scored from first base on a ball lined into the right-centerfield gap by David Ortiz. Lifetime, he is 0-0 with a 4.73 ERA (14-ER/26.2-IP) in 11 appearances against the White Sox (all with the Tigers).
