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Boston had a 6-1 lead with two outs and nobody on in the ninth
inning before five consecutive St. Louis batters reached base,
four on hits. Tanner Houck struck out Paul Goldschmidt with a
runner on second to end the game and earn his third save.
Xander Bogaerts went 3-for-4 with a run while Rafael Devers
(2-for-3) and Trevor Story each drove in two runs for Boston,
which has won 12 of its past 15 games and four of the past five.
Wacha (5-1), facing off against longtime teammate and mentor
Adam Wainwright, allowed just six hits and one walk while
striking out five. Wacha and Wainwright both started twice
against the Red Sox during the 2013 World Series.
Tommy Edman, Nolan Arenado, Dylan Carlson and Harrison Bader all
had two hits for the Cardinals, who have lost back-to-back
games.
In his first regular-season start in Boston, Wainwright (5-5)
was charged with four runs on seven hits in 6 1/3 innings. He
fanned five and walked one.
The Red Sox wasted little time against Wainwright as Jarren
Duran ripped a leadoff triple to straightaway center field and
scored when J.D. Martinez grounded into a double play two
batters later.
Arenado knotted the score a half-inning later, depositing a
leadoff homer over the top of the Green Monster. Boston second
baseman Trevor Story robbed Bader of a hit in the third.
After making a highlight with the glove, Story sent a one-out,
two-run single through the right side to put Boston in the lead
in the fourth. A Martinez leadoff single and a Bogaerts double
set the table for the go-ahead runs.
The Red Sox boosted the lead to 6-1 in the seventh with an RBI
single from Jackie Bradley Jr. and a two-run single from Devers.
Wacha escaped the fifth inning without any damage after Carlson
and Bader hit one-out singles.
The Cardinals were finally able to get back on the board on
Bader's line-drive triple to center in the ninth. After Houck
replaced Austin Davis with runners on the corners, Edman hit a
run-scoring double and Brendan Donovan added a two-run double to
extend the game before Goldschmidt whiffed.
--Field Level Media
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