James McCann had three shots and scored twice, Brandon Pfaadt launched six solid rounds to win his 13th victory and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Boston 5-1 Red Sox in Phoenix on Saturday.
Adrian Del Castillo had two strokes and Jake McCarthy had two points produced for the D-Backs, who won four in a row and eight out of 10.
PFAADT (13-6) granted a point on six strokes, with seven sticks to the stick and without walks. He had abandoned 10 points combined during his last two departures.
Masataka Yoshida had a simple RBI and Romy Gonzalez extended his sequence of strikes for nine games for the Red Sox, who lost three in a row after a sequence of three consecutive victories.
Boston (78-65) fell to 4 1/2 games behind Toronto in Al East. The Red Sox are 1 1/2 games behind the New York Yankees for the first position of the Joker Al.
The Arizona (72-71) has moved .500 for the first time since July 1 and has closed at 4 1/2 from the New York Mets for the last place of NL Wild Card.
The defender of the Boston Center Ceddanne Rafaela and the player of the Arizona Blaze Alexander exchanged defensive jewels by winning hikes with jumping at the fence.
Rafaela stole Corbin Carroll in fifth round and Alexander did the same to Alex Bregman in the eighth.
Leaving Boston Lucas Giolito (10-3) granted seven strokes, all in single and four points (two deserved) in five and more rounds. He walked three and withdrew two.
Justin Wilson replaced Giolito after Del Castillo and McCann chose to open the sixth, and he removed the side to keep the match at 4-1.
Arizona took an advance of 3-0 during the second round in a rally fed by the error of the Trevor Story stop. Del Castillo and McCann in simple and Tyler Locklear attracted a walk before the story, lets McCarthy’s Grounding go under his glove while two points scored. The fly of the sacrifice of Geraldo Perdomo crowned the Channel.
Nate Eaton doubled with two withdrawals in the third, the first hit of the Red Sox, and scored on the single of Yoshida to do it 3-1. Yoshida took the lead for the first time in her career.
The D-Backs took an advance of 4-1 after the single RBI of McCarthy in the fourth, and Alexander struck a sacrificial fly in the seventh for the last round.
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