Adley Rutschman and Mickey Gasper each hit a solo home run to help the Boston Red Sox defeat the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks 9-4 Tuesday night.
Rutschman went 2-for-4 with three RBIs in the win. Gasper collected two hits and drove in two runs.
Boston, which scored in five of its eight innings at the plate, also received two hits apiece from Nick Sogard, Willson Contreras and Andruw Monasterio. The Red Sox had 13 hits in the game and have won the first two games in the three-game series.
Gabriel Moreno hit a grand slam off Ranger Suarez in the third inning for the Diamondbacks, who have lost their last three games. Suarez (5-3) pitched 5 1/3 innings to earn the win. He allowed four runs on four hits.
Arizona starting pitcher Merrill Kelly (8-11) gave up six runs on seven hits in four-plus innings
The Red Sox grabbed a 3-0 lead in the first on Rutschman’s two-run single and Caleb Durbin’s sacrifice fly, which drove in Wilyer Abreu.
Arizona took a 4-3 lead in the top of the third on Moreno’s grand slam, but Boston tied the game on Rutschman’s solo home run in the bottom half of the inning and then took a 5-4 lead when Durbin scored on Kelly’s wild pitch later in the third. Rutschman’s home run was his ninth of the season, but his first since the Orioles traded him to the Red Sox on Aug. 3.
Boston stretched its lead to 6-4 when Monasterio drove in Contreras with a single to left in the fifth.
Gasper’s home run, his second in as many games, made it a 7-4 game in the sixth, and Contreras drove in Sogard with an RBI single that extended the lead to 8-4 later in the inning.
Boston wrapped up the scoring in the seventh when Gasper drove in Sogard with an RBI single.
