BOSTON -- A little infusion of youth and a solid start by Jon Lester kept the Boston Red Sox rolling along.
Lester pitched seven shutout innings and Brock Holt drove in two runs with one of his major league record-tying four doubles to lift the Red Sox to their seventh straight win, completing a three-game sweep over the reeling Tampa Bay Rays with a 4-0 victory on Sunday.
Boston's streak follows a 10-game skid, its longest in 20 years. The Red Sox said that matches a major league record for consecutive wins after a double-digit losing stretch, according to research by the Elias Sports Bureau.
Myers to DL Rays place Myers on DL with sprained right wrist The 1989 Detroit Tigers did it after losing 12 in a row, and the 1942 Pittsburgh Pirates also did it after dropping 10 straight.
Rookies Garin Cecchini and Adam Hassen collected their first major league hits to go along with fellow rookie Holt's big day.
''It's great. It kind of makes you reminisce of all the good firsts and just how excited they'll be,'' Lester said. ''That's the cool part about this game, to see these guys come up and doing this stuff to help out the team.''
Holt tied a major league record for doubles in a single game one day after he hit his first major league homer in Saturday night's win. Cecchini added an RBI double for his first major league hit.
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The Red Sox taking this win is very good for them because they have not been doing very well lately. The team has been struggling a lot and these wins have given them a lot of of confidence to do better. Since the Red Sox have been a little behind most fans have given up because they are getting so frustrated with their season. These wins should get the Red Sox pumped up and put them on the right track for the rest of the season.
Lester pitched seven shutout innings and Brock Holt drove in two runs with one of his major league record-tying four doubles to lift the Red Sox to their seventh straight win, completing a three-game sweep over the reeling Tampa Bay Rays with a 4-0 victory on Sunday.
Boston's streak follows a 10-game skid, its longest in 20 years. The Red Sox said that matches a major league record for consecutive wins after a double-digit losing stretch, according to research by the Elias Sports Bureau.
Myers to DL Rays place Myers on DL with sprained right wrist The 1989 Detroit Tigers did it after losing 12 in a row, and the 1942 Pittsburgh Pirates also did it after dropping 10 straight.
Rookies Garin Cecchini and Adam Hassen collected their first major league hits to go along with fellow rookie Holt's big day.
''It's great. It kind of makes you reminisce of all the good firsts and just how excited they'll be,'' Lester said. ''That's the cool part about this game, to see these guys come up and doing this stuff to help out the team.''
Holt tied a major league record for doubles in a single game one day after he hit his first major league homer in Saturday night's win. Cecchini added an RBI double for his first major league hit.
Read more here...
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/gametracker/recap/MLB_20140601_TB@BOS/red-sox-blank-rays-for-seventh-straight-win
The Red Sox taking this win is very good for them because they have not been doing very well lately. The team has been struggling a lot and these wins have given them a lot of of confidence to do better. Since the Red Sox have been a little behind most fans have given up because they are getting so frustrated with their season. These wins should get the Red Sox pumped up and put them on the right track for the rest of the season.