Ceddanne Rafaela’s walk-off Monster homer gives Red Sox 8th win in a row
The Red Sox looked lost at the plate for nearly three hours on Friday night, grounding out 11 times and leaving six men on base. It was shaping up to be the kind of game they hadn’t played in a while, a one-run loss in which they squandered valuable opportunities and were done in by error and misplay. And then it wasn’t. With one out, and pinch-hitter Roman Anthony on first having drawn a walk, Ceddanne Rafaela blasted Pete Fairbanks’ 1-2 slider high and deep into the inky sky. As it soared 406 feet at 103 mph, the Fenway Faithful roared, knowing where it would eventually land: Safely atop the Green Monster and in the win column, 5-4. Simplification key to Red Sox’ Ceddanne Rafaela becoming ‘premier player’ /*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i
