RAYS vs. RED SOX： Official Full Game Highlights (July 18) ｜ 2026 MLB Season

Welcome everyone to Boston, Massachusetts, where, as you can see, it's a bit of a rainy Saturday afternoon. Hopefully it's going to stop soon, but we are planning on having Rays baseball today from Fenway. The first place Rays against the hottest team going into big leagues these days. They are the Boston Red Sox. Little bit of rain cannot stop the scalding hot Red Sox. They have pushed it to 11. They are back to 500, firing on all cylinders. Field is prepped and we are going to get going as the Red Sox go for 12 consecutive wins. It's a 29-year-old Patrick Sandoval, the lefty, making his second start of the year. Remember, Tommy John, he's missed the last two seasons. He was really good in that outing. And it's a ball 40 under Diaz to start the day. That should be a swing and a miss. It is. Marquez rings him up at first. That's a strikeout. One gone. All right. One out, one on. Here's Junior Camanero. Two hard ground ball. Could be two. To third. Durbin. Second one. On to first. That's a double play. And Patrick Sandoval will face the minimum in his first Fenway inning. Ian Seymour, as he makes the start here tonight. 33 games. Six of them have been starts. He's won six. Lost two. An ERA of 4.59. Outstanding whip at 1.16. There's the change-up. There's the string pull. And there's the swing and miss. This is exactly what we're talking about. He did a good job of getting ahead of Ziegler. Changed his eye level with the fastball. And then comes right back downstairs with his change-up. And he ends up losing Abreu. Not really many good pitches after 0-2. Swing at a high. Pop up to shallow center. In is DeLuca. He's got the call. And he's waiting for it. And medium-range center makes the grab. And after the walk, just a few pitches for Seymour to get through his scoreless first. Ryan Valade will start it. The numbers on Ryan. And he must like facing the Red Sox because all they have are left-handers, or so it seems. That's a fair ball for Valade. That should turn into an extra base hit. Valade, with his seventh double of the year in the race, get a man to scoring position. And how about all that with two strikes? That was a really good job by Ryan Valade showing a quick bat. As Chandler Simpson digs in. Quarters in expecting a bunt with nobody out. Look how shallow Contreras is coming in. And he swings and grounds it. Diving at second is Ziegler. And there's no play at first. The throw gets away. Valade scores. The Rays lead 1-0. It's chaos. I have never seen anything like that. Wilson Contreras was maybe 30 feet away from Chandler Simpson. And once he swung the bat and the play was made by Ziegler, now it's a race between Contreras and Chandler up the first baseline. This is the fourth chance for the Rays with a runner in scoring position in this inning. That's as many as they had in the entire double header. It's Nick Fortes. And that's a base hit. Simpson flies around third. And even Abreu has no play. What a heck of a job by Nick Fortes to double the Rays lead. Well, here's the thing. You had Patrick Sandoval try to take the nasty slider that he had just thrown and make it nastier. It stays flat and it's up. Fortes, with his level swing, is able to just poke it the other way and get that run in. Rays, as you've noted, have not led after a full inning so far in this series. So really looking for that zero here on the board. Big pitch there by Seymour. And down goes Durbin. He's been doing a little bit more of that. Oh, yeah. Every now and then he's very strategic with it. So he's on. Now Jemai Jones' first Red Sox start today. High fly ball. He jumped on it. Deep left and she is gone. Oh, the magic in the air for the Boston Red Sox. His first at-bat as a member of the Sox at Fenway. And he crushes it. And this game is tied. Welcome to Boston. Jemai Jones. Talking about trying to find something to get him right. Maybe they found something pregame. This ball smoked. We said through this run, it's been somebody different all the time. And today it's game one here for Jemai Jones. Gets his first start. Ties this game up. But there's one down. Hammers one out of here. A little looper to center. And coming on for the diving effort. Sadon in center field. With some more highway robbery by the Red Sox defensively. And an outstanding play for out number two. I'd say for about a half inning, this game kind of felt a little differently than the last ones. But that's been fixed here recently with a two-run homer from Jemai Jones and Sadon just doing what he does. You get spoiled watching a guy cover ground the way he does. Spectacular catch. 2-2. Swing and a miss on a changeup to end the inning. That'll work. So that's out number two. A quick out. Now it's the number three hitter, Willier Abreu. Shot to center field. DeLuca backing up. Turning around. See you later. A tear. And the Red Sox back in front. His third home run in the last two days at Fenway. This goes 435. We'll let this man get hot. Boy is it loud when he gets hot. Four home runs now. Less six. Oh, smoke to center field. When they come for him, they come in bunches, don't they? They always have. The Red Sox have their first lead of the afternoon. Chandler Simpson staring at strike one from Patrick Sandoval. Sliced into left. Jones has to play it off the wall. And Simpson dives into second with a green monster double. Well, left field can be tricky here. Obviously because of the monster and how you play balls off of it. It never looked like Jemi Jones was comfortable going after that baseball. Simpson runs. And the throw goes into left field. It's a Chandler Simpson rally. He does it almost all by himself. And the Rays have an answer. It's a 3-3 tie. And think about his first that bad. You know, with Wilson Contreras and he hits that ground ball to second base and is able to outrace Contreras to first. Force an error on that particular play. And he does it again. What a great jump. I mean, this is stolen so easily that you just didn't even need to make that throw. And now it is Victor Mesa, Jr. Left hand hitter. Oh, that is smacked into deep right field. And the Rays have the lead. A homer by Victor Mesa, Jr. It's 4-3 Rays. Mesa's sixth home run and a ball that sounded like it was detonated. Well, here's a definition of a hanger. A hanging slider right in the middle of the plate. I mean, right off of that bat, a projectile home run. Right over that happy bullpen for the Rays. Who swings and lifts one to fairly deep left. This one has a shot and it is off the wall. Palacios will speed into second with another wall ball double off the monster. The second of the inning for the Rays, who may not be done here in the fourth. Two out, man at second. That gets underneath Narvaez, taking off Palacios. And he's going to get down to third. Today's had a different feel to it. Red Sox have already made two errors. Yeah, a little sloppy. Seems like a grind, a little battle. Just to get that glove down quick enough. And they are now 90 feet away from increasing their lead back to two. Swing and Diaz smokes a base hit in the left center field. And the Rays have gone up by two again. Richie Palacios scores and it's 5-3 Tampa Bay. Who have put up a three spot here in the fourth. That's what you want to see from Yandy Diaz right there. Two out RBI hit brings up DeLuca who has struck out and flied out. Tags that one toward the alley. That's down on the grass. Sadon tries to cut it. He does get to it. Diaz is going to be waved in. Here comes the throw home. He's trying to score. And he is out at the plate. The Red Sox cut him down. And that started with Sadon getting to that ball as he did into the alley way out there. They're not going to challenge. Beautiful job by Sadon to get to this ball. And then Sigler with a throw around the plate. And a nice tag there by Narvaez to get one off the board. Two outs nobody on pitch. Swing and a ball sliced into shallow right. Coming on Mesa. Still coming. Dives and makes the catch. Terrific play by Victor Mesa Jr. And for the first time today the Rays have a 1-2-3 inning of the Boston Red Sox. Still a long way to go. Rays are up 5-3 after 5. Sometimes when you get a runner thrown out of the bases it kind of sticks the offense in its tracks for a little bit. And it has been 8 up and 8 down as you said Neil. And now it is Johnny DeLuca. Whoops. DeLuca to the monster. Gone. Home run. Johnny DeLuca just got it over the top. And the Rays have a 6-3 lead. A monster shot for DeLuca. And after the Rays had gone down without a hit after Johnny's double last time up he provides an insurance run. This was an absolute shot. He swung a hard ground ball left side. Snared by Durbin. He gets up. He throws to first in time to take another hit away from Junior Caballero. Mona Sterio stretches one into two. It's a lead off double to begin the bottom of the 7th inning. The high chopped to first. The lane will flip to the pitcher and he is going to No he's not. He missed it. He is safe at first. Runners on at first and third. Alfonso Marquez jumping in there. Rolling him safe. Durant a little awkward slide to avoid a collision. Looks like Sulser maybe just missed the bag. He never touches the base. Steps around it. Masatake Yoshida about to step in. 3-39 his last 18 going up the middle. The play at first is in time as a run scores. Mona Sterio crossing home plate on the tapper. Will make it 6-4. And Durant down to second. You get one in. You also get Durant over to second base in scoring position. Two down. Up to Sedan. Man on second. Swing and a high fly ball left field deep. Backing up Simpson to the wall. He's planted off the green. Another run is in. Durant will score. Into second. Here's the throw. Safely in with a double. Another one. And this is a one run game. Oh this kid. He loves the moment. Another hit for Sedan. They've gone left on left here to face Willier Abreu. Garrett Clevenger their best left handed relief arm. In to see Willier with two outs and the tying run on second base. One of those things that makes you go huh? Basic left handed pitchers. He ranks second in the majors on all base percentage. Fourth on average in OPS. Eighth in slugging. Swing and a drive. The Saks are back in front. Abreu with an 11-6 over Tampa Bay. Fenway is snapping. What is going on? Four runs here in the seventh. Said don't let that man get hot. His second home run today. He's hit four in the last two days. Look at this. Look at the reaction. Unreal. What's unfolding here at Fenway again. I don't know what to tell you. Again 0-34 down three. Put a four in the seventh. Abreu. And Arolis Chapman has the ball in the ninth inning. The Red Sox three outs away from 12 consecutive wins. Sky high around the plate. Wong backing out. Contreras coming in. And in the end it's Durbin to make the play. Little dribbler. Durbin with the charge. Scoops and fires. And two down. He makes every play. Back to back walks. First and second for Tampa Bay. Fans at Fenway waiting to explode. 2-1. Ground ball to short. Monasterio up and gunning. Got him. And a magic back at Fenway in a big way. That's 12 in a row. The longest winning streak for the Red Sox since 0-6. What a ball game. Four in the seventh inning. It's the first time the Red Sox have won a game this year when trailing by three in their first 12-game winning streak since 2006. They win it 7-6 against Tampa Bay.