Locked On Red Sox POSTCAST- Houck Helps Red Sox To Win In Toronto

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The Red Sox made it 3 straight wins with a (4-1) win in the series opener against the Blue Jays Monday night in Toronto. It's just the 2nd 3-game win streak since the All-Star Break for the Red Sox, who are also a game over .500 with 5 more games left in the Regular Season.

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On The Board: Red Sox scored single runs in 3 straight innings against Blue Jays starter Chris Bassitt, who walked a career-high 7 hitters over 4.1 Innings. Vaughn Grissom got the Sox on the board 1st with a Sacrifice Fly in the 2nd Inning. Wilyer Abreu picked up his 58th RBI of the season with an RBI Double in the 3rd Inning. Rafael Ceddanne made it 3-0 with an RBI groundout in the 4th. Rafaela picked up his 2nd RBI of the game when he reached on a fielder's choice in the 8th inning and Connor Wong scored from 3rd.

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Tanner's Night: Tanner Houck retired 14 in a row to open up the game. Houck walked Addison Barger to give the Blue Jays their 1st base runner of the game. The next hitter, Ernie Clement, reached with a single. Houck came back and retired the next hitter to strand the 2 base runners. Houck went the 1st 5 Innings and departed with a 3-0 lead. Houck picked up his 9th win of the season and his 1st since July 11 at home against the Oakland A's.

#89's Final Line: 5.0 IP. 1 Hit. 0 R. 0 ER. 1 BB. 0 K. 57P/36 Strikes. 11 of 17 1st-pitch strikes.

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1st Out of The Pen: Greg Weisser was the 1st in from the Red Sox bullpen Monday night. Weissert allowed back-to-back singles to the 1st 2 hitters of the inning and then he got a groundball Double Play and a groundout from Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

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Rest of The Pen: Zach Penrod and Luis Guerrero combined to get 3 outs in the 6th Inning. Guerrero worked a perfect 8th Inning. Blue Jays spoiled the Red Sox shutout bid with a run on 2 hits against Chris Martin in the 9th. Martin got a game-ending Double Play to put the Sox in the win column.

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Extra-Base Knocks: Jaren Duran collected his 17th game this season with multiple extra-base hits. Duran had a hustle Double in the 4th, his 47th Double of the season. Duran picked up his 14th Triple of the season in the 6th and he was left stranded. He now has 82 Extra-Base Hits through 155 games played.

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Had 'Em Loaded: Red Sox had the bases loaded with 1 out in the 5th Inning but Nick Sogard hit into an inning-ending Double Play. The Sox have now had 107 opportunities with the bases loaded this season (Baseball Reference) and still haven't hit a Grand Slam.

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A Look Ahead: The Red Sox will look to make it 4 straight wins with Game 2 of the 3-Game Series against the Blue Jays Tuesday night. Sox are now 7-4 vs. the Blue Jays this season and are 4-0 at Rogers Centre.

Probable Starting Pitchers:

Tuesday: Brayan Bello vs. Bowden Francis.

Wednesday: Richard Fitts vs. Kevin Gausman

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