The Red Sox keep finding new ways to turn a tense night into another entry in the win column.
On Monday at Fenway Park, Boston outlasted the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 to stretch its winning streak to 14 straight games, pushing the club one step closer to a piece of franchise history. Baltimore arrived with a seven-game run of its own, but the Red Sox answered that challenge and came away with a result that was anything but routine.
Boston jumped in front 3-1 in the third inning and looked ready to settle things early. The Orioles, though, kept punching back. They climbed ahead 4-3, then later moved in front 5-4 before the Red Sox answered again.
Willson Contreras delivered an RBI double to even the score, and Ceddanne Rafaela came through with the RBI hit in the bottom of the seventh to tie it once more. In the eighth, Caleb Durbin changed the game with a home run that proved to be the winner.
Aroldis Chapman handled the ninth by striking out two, finishing the game and lowering his season ERA to 1.99.
It wasn’t Payton Tolle’s best outing, but Boston’s offense covered for him and kept the streak alive.
The 14-game run now stands as the second-longest in Red Sox history, trailing only the 15-game streak from 1946. For a team that opened the season in rough shape, this has become a remarkable surge, and it now sits just one win away from matching a mark that has stood for 80 years.
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