Wednesday, September 26, 2018 01:05 PM (ET)

Devers homers twice, Red Sox rout O's in DH opener

Field Level Media
Sep 26, 2018

Rafael Devers hit a pair of home runs with six RBIs, and Xander Bogaerts drove in four runs to reach the 100-RBI mark as the Boston Red Sox added to their franchise-best victory total Wednesday with a 19-3 rout over the visiting Baltimore Orioles in the first game of a day-night doubleheader.

The game was scheduled after Tuesday night's contest was rained out.

Five of the Red Sox's 22 hits were home runs, including one for Bogaerts and one for J.D. Martinez, whose 42nd of the season also gave the Red Sox their 200th on the year. Boston hit 168 home runs last season.

Martinez is now tied with Dick Stuart (1963) for most home runs in a debut season with the Red Sox. Devers has 21 home runs while Bogaerts hit his 22nd. Blake Swihart added a homer, his third.

Mookie Betts joined Jacoby Ellsbury (2011) as the only players in Red Sox history with a 30-homer, 30-steal season when he swiped second base in the second inning.

The Red Sox (107-51) became just the 15th team to win at least 107 games, and the first since the 2001 Seattle Mariners won 116.

The Orioles (45-112) tied the 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates for the sixth-most losses in the modern era.

The Red Sox took control in the opening inning with a two-run double from Bogaerts and a three-run double from Devers.

The Orioles hit two second-inning home runs, getting a solo shot from Trey Mancini, his 24th, and a two-run shot from Renato Nunez, his eighth. Baltimore then loaded the bases on a single and two walks with one out before Red Sox starter David Price escaped that jam.

Price (16-7) gave up three runs on six hits over five innings with three walks and six strikeouts.

The Red Sox also had nine doubles, by nine different players, to increase their major-league-leading total to 344. Devers had four hits while Martinez and Andrew Benintendi had three each. Betts reached base three times.

In his first career start and 17th career appearance, Orioles right-hander Ryan Meisinger (2-1) recorded just one out, giving up five runs on four hits with a walk. It was his first career loss.

--Field Level Media

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