Rays vs. Red Sox Game 1 Highlights (7/17/26) | MLB Highlights

Red Sox in race game one out of the all-star break Red Sox have gone from six and a half back in a wild card to a Half game back by winning 14 out of 16 and on a major league best nine game win streak Jake Bennett We'll see this Tampa lineup. They are 56 and 38 they are the best team in the American League and it's in there for strike three caught him looking Diaz back to the bench one away I could sink her in and here's Jonathan Aranda who is probably one of the few Rays who didn't want the break to come It's a ball forward to Aranda junior coming arrow steps in I think we all were worried watching the all-star game It's almost like you see your life flash in front of your eyes He kind of saw a season flash for a moment when junior got hit on the hand fortunately the finger not broken He said he'll play in both games Socked in his center field stayed on on the move Back to first goes Aranda and to go on now the right hand hitting Ryan Valade and a high pop in the left coming in Duran And Jaron is there for the catch. Nothing comes to the walk and the Red Sox are coming up Griffin Jackson He certainly has acclimated himself to that starting rotation quite well ERA of two point eight zero an outstanding whip of one point one three and talk about efficiency One pitch one out say Don Rafaela who like Yandy Diaz and junior common arrow and a handful of Rays coming back from his first all-star game And he's always been tough against the Rays He just got a three-pitch strikeout on Rafaela who claims that he foul-tipped it two out for Jackson the Rays here on the first Louie Arabria from the left side There's another one there and that one right there not below the zone But he kept it off the plate away Little part of the order coming up after Griffin Jacks had an easy first inning with a couple of punches And up the middle he goes base hit Durbin with the first knock he leads at first Masatake Yoshida hits a ground ball third base I bounce his fair over the bag trickles down the left field line Durbin first to second He goes to third and Yoshida follows to second That ball ended up a hundred and thirty feet away from home plate and it's a Masa Double as it bounced over the bag That was like eight ball corner pocket Just placed it right over the bag and it hit the wall and basically stopped a foot away It kept running now. You got two in scoring position Durin a dangerous hitter, but he's also had a tough season I fly that one driven deep to the triangle to look on the run And runs it down. I don't get a run in tagging up Durbin. He is in to score On a sack fly Durin hit it a ton Really fine play by DeLuca as far as he could go out to 420 But the Sox lead at one to nothing 20 ballparks. That's a home run Norvai is another guy who had a great year a season ago like Duran but is struggling mightily this year 3-2 Centerfield dropping dropping that's down for a base hit another run will score Masatake is in the Red Sox lead it 2 to nothing Now by is his seventh RBI of the season that sucks getting it done with two out Yeah, now we needed that this one here. It's a tough at-bat. This sweeper is filthy from from Jax, especially for righties, right? There's contact put the ball in play that ball wasn't smoked either and you got a couple of runs now between him and Yoshida Sungche Chang stands in at a three-pitch Evisceration Red Sox get two runs on three hits and leaving Taylor walls eighth in the order for Tampa Bay is the switch hitting shortstop Hard ground ball nice snaps there by Durbin up and gunning the tag put down. Yeah got him Romy Gonzalez with a very athletic play at first see if they think about challenging that but getting off the bag had to and got The tag down on walls and no challenge to down and now it is the leadoff hitter Yandy Diaz fresh off the all-star game in Philadelphia on Tuesday He'll drill a line drive and a nice play by Duran on a shoestring catch To get that glove down there on a wickedly hit line drive Beautiful catch look at this got down for it brought number three stayed in the glove One pitch one down to begin the fourth raise still trailing the Red Sox to nothing jr Commie narrow and there's the first race here another bully hit hard. Yep All right there. He was able to pull with authority So now it is Ryan Valade and he'll pop it up Up into the Sun Siegler there And Anthony with the catch and two down Johnny DeLuca bunts third base side late start Durbin barehand pick throws on the run It is and time more Caleb Durbin magic at third He was surprised by the bud and he made the play another quick inning for Jake Bennett Sox lead to nothing as we head To the bottom of the fourth Masaki Yoshida with a double will rip this one high toward the pesky pole down the line And that ball's gone Masa with a home run and three nothing Boston. He tucked it in there perfectly the man's on fire He really is that's his third home run the last nine games when he's fourth of the year, but lately Getting in there every day got some seeds thrown at him. He's got the Wally hat We're on cycle watch for Masa meet that triple and Red Sox have gotten him three runs of support Simpson will lead things off moving along to the fifth inning payout pitch And they'll line that to left field coming on Duran and another nice play as he slides down for that He's made a couple of dandies already Here's a minus defender not defensive run save but outs above average this year He's plus six that second the AL out there in left field Very quickly once again to have nobody on and he'll get a little pop-up Gonzales out so his chink and a Bray win To make the play Siegler was over there as well and that'll retire the side one, two, three They're at least one a sixth inning out of Griffin Jacks down by the three nothing score That's gonna hit him Durbin tried to spin away But he gets drilled by the pitch and Caleb is a boy to be in the sixth inning and sends up the man who's been a Man-of-the-hour today so far Masa Taki Yoshida double and a home run Line driving a base hit machine Durbin will round he will head into third don't look now But Masa is a triple away from hitting for the cycle First and third nobody out of three nothing here in the sixth inning and a chance to really put this one out of reach And that's gonna be ball for it So they're all loaded up with nobody out Geron Duran who has hit the hardest ball for any Red Sox hitter today for an out But he did drive in a run he's 0 for 1 today And there's no place to put him ground ball and off the glove that's in the right field Durbin is in Yoshida is in that's gonna drive in to Duran with RB eyes two and three on the day five to nothing Boston with the infield in he Capitalizes again, and the Red Sox are up by five Do it for Jax and again about contact right got a little in-between hop can't control where it goes with that infield drawn in Williamson unable to kind of pick this ball gets through get two RB eyes out of it Jax is done They go to the bullpen Romy Gonzalez at third Jaron Duran at first Carlos Narvaez the batter against the right hand throwing Chris Roy Croft He drops out a bunt runner trying to score The throw is up the right field line Duran heading into third they'll stop in there as the throw comes back Red Sox capitalized on a suicide squeeze They lead it six to nothing. They're Tampa Bay in the race I'd love that try to get that extra run any way you can low safety squeeze And again getting rewarded for playing it the right way the second baseman's not there We're throwing the ball around everywhere, and so that puts runners at first and third still nobody out Chang the batter Red Sox trying to make this a huge inning another bunt kiss down the lines to stay fair Yes, it is and another run will score Red Sox doing it any way you can do it Tampa Bay still complaining about that, but a fair ball, and it's seven to nothing keep going do it again back-to-back bunts by your Boston Red Sox Ball stay on the line it did Was pretty close in channels that though before the bag double play going four six three Down to third goes Norvias now Rafaela man a third two out and a drive out to left field back toward the wall High up there off the green another run scores Say it on for second base and a stand-up double Eight to nothing Sox his 40th RBI of the year and the beat goes on here in the sixth This ball driven the top of the wall That's one of those were Fenway Park probably cost you one He'll take the double in the RBI five runs in in the sixth. Let's actually battered around Here's a brave and they're gonna send will your Bray you to first base intentional walk to Pitch to Durbin here first and second poorly down eight nothing eight to nothing interesting He'll chop that one through the open space That's gonna bring in another run say it on across home plate throw in the third and not gonna get him That'll make it nine to nothing second hit today for Durbin Second time he's been on base here in the sixth inning. That's just a weird situation there, too Oh, you just walk up Bray you get down eight nothing to pitch to Durbin who's been swinging it Well gets another knock drives in another run. There's a party right now two down man on the corners Masatake Yoshida bats for a second time in the inning and this nightmare of a sixth inning has finally come to an end Nine nothing Red Sox with a commanding lead here in the seventh. There's no vias swinging a high drive Deep to left Narvaez gets one and she's way out of here totally out of the ballpark Carlos with a big day as well Red Sox putting it on Tampa Bay Narvaez certainly is 10 to nothing. Oh That number 10 has a magic ring to it today. He got all of it his third of the year It'd be nice to get him going not that first half that he wanted but he comes out here today three four four It's got three RB eyes a bomb said it before we've seen it many many times guys struggling that first half put a second half Together have a nice year. It's a good start to it Trying to get the final three outs of this game. We give the Red Sox a 10 game Win streak two down man on first and popped up in comes Roman Gonzalez He makes the catch and the Red Sox go 10 for 10 10 runs to win 10 straight How about the wild card the Red Sox with this win at the moment? They are a wild card team How about that playing great baseball I mean how important is it to have that stretch here for four or five days that all maybe it's gonna be bad for them Right. You can see how you do coming out of the break. Well, they come out here 10 nothing against the Rays You got to keep this thing going. You got a second one because they're playing great baseball. You want to keep playing? Sure do 10 in a row for the Boston Red Sox They knock off Tampa Bay here today 10 zip and the Red Sox are now one game from 500