Gray Fans 11, Abreu Goes Deep Twice in Boston's 5-2 Win

Sonny Gray was untouchable for seven innings — 11 strikeouts, 1 earned run — and Wilyer Abreu did damage with both his legs and his bat as Boston handled Colorado 5-2. The game was effectively decided before the fourth inning was over.

Boston wasted no time. In the first, Abreu tripled to center to score Eaton, and that single swing dropped Colorado's win probability from 36% to 24% — the biggest momentum shift of the night. The Red Sox pushed it to 2-0 in the second when Eaton singled to left to score Monasterio, though Wong was thrown out at third trying to push the advantage further. Colorado answered immediately: Castro launched a 435-foot home run to right to cut it to 2-1, and for a moment it looked like the Rockies might hang around.

They didn't. Abreu put the game away in the fifth with a 443-foot shot to center — his second extra-base hit of the night — making it 3-1. Then Boston piled on in the sixth. Eaton doubled to left to score Seigler, and Rafaela followed with a single to left to score Eaton, pushing the lead to 5-1. That sixth-inning two-run burst appears to have been the moment Colorado's bullpen — Zach Agnos, who came on after Sean Sullivan's five-inning, five-walk start — simply ran out of answers. Agnos went three innings and allowed five hits and two earned runs; Sullivan had already surrendered three earned runs on five hits and five walks before him. The story of the night on the Colorado side was the walk total: their pitching issued six free passes combined, and Boston made them pay for nearly every one.

Gray, meanwhile, was a different story entirely. Seven innings, six hits, one earned run, three walks, and 11 strikeouts — that's a performance that looks like a frontline starter operating at full capacity. Justin Slaten handled the eighth cleanly with a scoreless inning. Tovar hit a solo shot to left in the ninth — 380 feet — to make it 5-2, but that was purely cosmetic. Eaton finished 3-for-4 with 2 RBI and 2 runs scored, the kind of quiet, consistent line that wins games without demanding headlines. Boston's offense spread the damage across the lineup, and Gray made sure Colorado never had a realistic path back.