Overview
- Tarik Skubal struck out 10 over six innings during Saturday's 4-1 win in Boston, allowing one run on four hits and lowering his ERA to 2.08.
- Detroit scored on a bases-loaded walk in the first before a three-run fourth featuring Kerry Carpenter's solo homer, a Jake Rogers sacrifice fly, and Kevin McGonigle's RBI single.
- Tyler Holton covered two scoreless innings in relief, and Kenley Jansen closed the ninth for his fifth save and the 481st of his career.
- Red Sox starter Brayan Bello yielded four runs in four innings, and Boston fell to 0-12 this season when its starter fails to reach six.
- The victory snapped Detroit's nine-game road skid, the club's longest winless stretch away from home since a 10-game slide in 2010.