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BOSTON (AP) — Eugenio Suárez hit a three-run home run against the Green Monster to lead off the game, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Boston Red Sox 7-5 on Sunday for their sixth straight victory and to complete a three-game sweep.
The Diamondbacks (75-56) occupy the NL’s top wild-card spot and moved to a season-record 19 games over .500 with their 34th win in 47 games. Geraldo Perdomo hit a solo home run around the Pesky Pole, estimated at just 319 feet.
Suárez, who went 4-for-4, had a key two-run double against the Monster on Saturday and hit a grand slam over it in the Series opener on Friday.
Rafael Devers hit his 200th career home run, a three-run hit, becoming the 11th player in Red Sox history to reach that mark. Triston Casas and Tyler O’Neill both hit solo hits for Boston, which fell to 29-35 in games played at Fenway Park.
It was the Diamondbacks’ second sweep at Fenway; the first came in the club’s first away game in Boston in June 2002.
Arizona’s Corbin Carroll had a single in four at-bats, making his 34th consecutive start.
Suárez hit a sweeper from Tanner Houck (8-9) through the middle with the first pitch, which bounced off a light post above the monster and fell onto the field.
Arizona’s Merrill Kelly (4-0) struggled through six innings, allowing four runs on seven hits, striking out five and walking three. Justin Martinez got the final three outs for his sixth save, though he did allow O’Neill’s home run.
The Red Sox have lost Houck’s last seven starts. He allowed six runs in six innings.
Trailing 4-0, the Diamondbacks — MLB’s top scoring team at 5.34 runs per game — scored three runs on just two hits and two walks against Houck in the fifth inning. Carroll had a sacrifice fly and Jake McCarthy had an RBI single after Perdomo’s scoring ground out.
Devers sent a sinker from Kelly into the batter’s eye in center field, his 28th of the season, to give the Red Sox a 4-0 lead in the fourth inning.
Casas hit an estimated 410-foot drive over Boston’s bullpen in the first inning.
Both teams had three double plays, both converted two 4-6-3s.
TRAINING ROOM
Red Sox: RHP Liam Hendriks got two outs, had two strikeouts and allowed an unearned run in a rehab appearance for Double-A Portland on Sunday, his third during his recovery from Tommy John surgery.
Next
Diamondbacks: After a bad day, LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (2-0, 3.94 ERA) is scheduled to start the first game of a three-game series against the Mets on Tuesday. LHP Sean Manaea (9-5, 3.48) is scheduled to start for New York.
Red Sox: To be announced Monday in the first of two games at Fenway, ending a rain-paused June 26 contest with the Blue Jays at bat in the second inning.
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