Red Sox Complete Sweep Against Astros At Fenway Park

The Boston Red Sox beat the Houston Astros 6-1 on Sunday, August 3rd, to sweep the 3-game series in front of a sold-out Fenway Park.

Boston has now won 7 of their last 8 games, and are a season-high 11 games over .500. The last time the Red Sox were 11 games over .500 was June 26, 2022, with a 42-31 record.

Lucas Giolito has the 36,081 fans in attendance on their feet. He went 8.0 innings, allowing just 3 hits and 1 run. He walked 4 and walked 1, to improve to 8-2 on the season.

The only run he allowed was to newly acquired Carlos Correa who hit a solo home run, his 8th of the season in the 4th inning.

Chris Murphy pitched the 9th inning, striking out 1, facing just 3 batters.

Trevor Story was 2-4 with a RBI single, tying the game in the 4th inning. He's knocked in 8 runs in the last 5 games.

Ceddanne Rafaela was 3-3 and drove in a run.

Roman Anthony was 1-4 with a double. He has hit .414 in his current 8-game hitting streak, with 3 doubles, a triple and 5 runs batted in. He has reached base in 35 of his last 38 games.

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Boston is 62-51 and in 2nd place in the AL East and own the top Wild Card Playoff spot.

The Red Sox will open a 3-game series with the Kansas City Royals on Monday night, August 4th. The pregame starts at 6:10 with the 1st pitch at 7:10 on WDEA AM 1370.