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Major League Baseball
Boston 7, Detroit 3
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, May 31, 2024
Where: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Temperature: 73°
Umpires: Home - Cory Blaser, 1B - Todd Tichenor, 2B - Emil Jimenez, 3B - Nestor Ceja
Attendance: 31231

Ceddanne Rafaela recorded his first career multi-homer game and drove in five as the host Boston Red Sox pulled away from the Detroit Tigers for a 7-3 win on Friday.

David Hamilton went 3-for-4 while Dominic Smith and Connor Wong each had two hits as the Red Sox finished with 12 hits.

Tanner Houck (5-5) gave up one run on three hits with six strikeouts and two walks in seven innings. He lowered his ERA to 1.85.

Riley Greene went 2-for-4 with a double, and Colt Keith hit a two-run home run for the Tigers.

Detroit jumped out to a first-inning lead. Greene lined a one-out single to center, stole second and scored on Gio Urshela's single to right.

Houck quickly settled in after that, retiring six straight batters and working around Greene's two-out double in the third.

The Red Sox broke through against Kenta Maeda (2-2) in the fourth. Rafael Devers started the rally with a leadoff double to center before scoring the tying run on Smith's double into the left-field corner. Rafaela hit a three-run homer to left later in the inning to give Boston a 4-1 lead.

In the fifth, Rob Refsnyder increased the lead to 5-1 on his two-out double that plated Wong, who reached on a double.

Rafaela's second homer of the game -- and seventh of the season -- pushed the lead to 7-1. Hamilton reached on a one-out infield single, stole second and came around to score on Rafaela's blast to left-center.

Keith hit a two-run shot in the eighth inning off Boston reliever Greg Weissert to trim Detroit's deficit to 7-3.

Maeda allowed eight hits and five runs in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out six and walked two.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Detroit   Boston
Kenta Maeda Player Tanner Houck
Loss W/L Win
4.2 IP 7.0
6 Strikeouts 6
8 Hits 3
9.64 ERA 1.29
Hitting
Detroit   Boston
Riley Greene Player David Hamilton
2 Hits 3
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 3
.500 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Detroit 7 1 12 .194 14 8 3 2 1 0
Boston 12 2 22 .353 14 8 7 2 1 2