Locked On Red Sox POSTCAST- Red Sox Win, That's the Story

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The Red Sox avoided falling to 2 Games below .500 with a 2-1 comeback win over the Tampa Bay Rays Wednesday night at Tropicana Field. The Red Sox are 2-4 on their current road trip that wraps up Thursday night. Sox are 76-76 with 10 games remaining in the regular season.

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Get On & Good Things Happen: Trevor Story led off the Top of the 8th Inning with an infield Single. Story stole 2nd, stole 3rd (with 1 out) and scored on an RBI Single from Jarren Duran. That gave the Red Sox their 1st lead of the game. Duran picked up just his 4th RBI in the month of September.

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The Pen: The Red Sox 5 relievers each worked a scoreless Inning in Wednesday night's 1-run win. Kenley Jansen worked a scoreless 9th Inning for his 27th save of the season and the 447th of his career. Jansen walked 2 with 2 outs in the 9th, but managed leave both runners in scoring position by getting Logan Driscoll on a strike out to end the game.

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Tanner On the Hill: Tanner Houck took the ball for the start against the Rays Wednesday night. It was his 1st outing since a road start against the Mets on September 4th. Houck struck out 2 of the 3 batters that he faced in the 1st Inning. He allowed a 2-out, run-scoring single to Tanner Walls in the 2nd Inning and that got the Rays on the board 1st. He came back and worked a 1-2-3 3rd Inning with 3 groundball outs and then escaped a 1st & 2nd jam in the 4th by getting a 5-4-3 inning-ending double play. He left after 4 Innings, 60 Pitches and the Red Sox trailing, 1-0.

Houck ended up with a no-decision and is still without a winning decision since July 11 at home against the Oakland A's.

#89's Final Line- 4.0 IP. 4 Hits. 1 R. 1 ER. 0 BB. 4 Ks.

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Immaculate Inning: Ryan Pepiot struck out Connor Wong, Wilyer Abreu and Triston Casas on 9 pitches in the 5th Inning. Pepiot gave up just 1 hit and struck out 10 hitters over the 1st 5 Innings. Pepiot is the 2nd pitcher with an Immaculate inning in the Majors this season (Michael Kopech with the White Sox on July 10). Pepiot ended up with a career-high 12 strikeouts over 6 Innings.

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NOT A Lot of Hits: Trevor Story tied the game at 1-1 with a Home Run to lead off the 6th Inning. It's Story's 2nd Home Run of the season. Red Sox managed only 2 hits over the 1st 6 Innings vs. Pepiot. Triston Casas led off the Top of the 3rd with a Double, but Pepiot came back and retired the next 3 batters.

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Some #'s: Red Sox are now 2-8 in Houck's last 10 outings. Tyler O'Neill led off the 7th with a walk and was left stranded. It was the only free pass worked by Red Sox hitters in the game. Sox hitters have walked 2 times in the 1st 2 Games of the Series against Tampa Bay pitching. Sox have walked 2 or fewer 6 times in September.

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A Look Ahead: The Red Sox and Rays conclude their series at Tropicana Field Thursday night in St. Pete, Florida.

The Red Sox are 5-4 this season against the Rays and 4-1 at Tropicana Field.

Probable Starting Pitchers:

Thursday: TBA vs. Zack Littell.

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Locked On Red Sox POSTCAST Notes:

The Sox improve to 22-23 versus AL East opponents.

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