G12: Red Sox 5, Rays 0

Red Sox - 000 203 000 - 5 10  0
Rays    - 000 000 000 - 0  4  0

Out of 160 career starts, Martín Pérez (5-4-0-3-4, 91) has pitched 5+ innings and allowed four or fewer hits and no runs only five times.

And starts with 5+ innings and no runs allowed: 12.

Alex Verdugo homered in the fourth and Michael Chavis (3-for-4) homered in the sixth.

Bullpen: 4-0-0-2-7, 59.

Martín Pérez / Ryan Yarbrough

Pillar, CF
Devers, 3B
Martinez, DH
Bogaerts, SS
Vázquez, C
Chavis, 1B
Verdugo, RF
Peraza, LF
Araúz, 2B

In two starts, Yarbrough has allowed two runs in 11.2 innings (1.54 ERA).

The Red Sox have been hacktastic so far this season, helping opposing pitchers immeasurably by swinging at everything — before last night, they had swung at 34.1% of pitches outside the zone, the third-highest team percentage. Walks are way down (only 6.9% of plate appearances, third-worst in MLB).

In last night's game, Rafael Devers swung at a curveball that hit him in the back leg. Devers has regressed this season, swinging at 46% of pitches outside of the strike zone. Devers is 8-for-41 (.195). José Peraza has swing at 52% of pitches outside of the zone, the third-highest chase rate in MLB.

Andrew Benintendi is 2-for-29 (.069) and Jackie Bradley was 0-for-his-last-21 before a ninth-inning single last night. Michael Chavis is 3-for-19 (.158) with nine strikeouts and only one walk in 20 plate appearances.

Third-base coach Carlos Febles is back in Boston after an inconclusive coronavirus test. Ron Roenicke: "We're pretty sure this thing is going to come out negative, but we didn't want to take a chance." ... [Update: Febles's latest test was negative.]