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2015 Season - Game 6

Posted on June 29, 2014 at 11:40 AM.

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THE BOSTON GLOBE (RED SOX DYNASTY REPORT)

ST. PETERSBURG - The Red Sox made their way south this week to face division foe and World Series hopeful Tampa Bay. This would be Chris Archer's first game as Boston's ace going against his former team, just the motivation any pitcher needs to shut a team down. Matt Moore would be up for the Rays, and he would need to shake off the memories of getting lit up by the Red Sox last august.

Considering how this game started, Moore might have actually wished he could go back to last August, today was much worse. Mike Napoli opening the scoring with a little help from Jayson Werth, who dove for a line drive and completely missed, turning a potential out into an RBI double and a 1-0 lead. Thing got worse in the second when Jackie Bradley Jr. took Moore deep for a 3R-HR and a 4-0 lead.

Werth's defense was atrocious

Moore's day ended mercifully in the 4th after putting a man on 1st and 3rd with no outs, but the Baseball Gods weren't done with his stat line. After Shane Victorino stole 2nd to eliminate the double-play Mookie Betts drove both runners in with a 2RBI double that pushed Moore's total to 6ER. Xander Bogaerts put an exclamation point in the inning with a 2R-HR that gave Boston an 8-0 lead in the 4th.

Boston scored three more runs, hammering a total of 15 hits, and the pitching staff blanked the Rays for a demoralizing 11-0 win. The Red Sox basically had their way with the Rays, totaling 5SB that helped get those 11 runners in. Tampa didn't help their cause, even though Archer was very wild the Rays only managed 2BB on their way to 11K's with Boston's ace.