Toro Recall: Red Sox snap 5-game losing streak by besting Braves

The Red Sox arrived in Atlanta on their first five-game losing streak of the season fresh off getting swept in Milwaukee where the Brewers had walked them off in each of the last two games On Friday night Boston bounced back with a - come-from-behind win and one of their the bulk complete high-caliber performances in weeks The outlook wasn t bright early on This beleaguered Boston ballclub ran the whole gamut of their issues in the opening frame wasting a pair of base runners Rafael Devers singled and Wilyer Abreu walked in the top of the first and gifting the Braves a - lead in the bottom of the inning They fell behind on an RBI single by Matt Olson and an error which was charged to right-fielder Wilyer Abreu rather than rookie catcher Carlos Narv ez who couldn t keep the throw in his glove It looked like the makings of yet another frustrating night of Red Sox baseball They entered Friday with the greater part errors in the American League one shy of the Colorado Rockies and leading Major League Baseball in runners left on base and strikeouts with men in scoring position Grant Holmes may have pitched a complete encounter if not for Abraham Toro The utility man had three hits scored Boston s first run and plated an additional run with a wall-ball RBI double that knocked the Braves starter out of the battle after innings Toro s teammates collectively had three hits against Holmes Toro has quietly been one of the greater part productive bats during the club s prolonged offensive slump Since getting called up to take Triston Casas spot at the start of the month he s hit with a OPS Over eight games dating back to last Friday he s for with three doubles and two home runs With Toro as the catalyst the Red Sox slowly gathered steam In the fourth they eventually got what they ve been sorely missing from one of their veteran leaders Trevor Story had just one extra-base hit off a non-position participant and strikeouts in his last games when he came to the plate with two outs and Toro on with his second hit After a drought of at-bats Story turned the first pitch he saw into a -foot mph homer and a - Boston lead It felt great Story communicated the AppleTV broadcast of the company s first win since last Saturday Had the off-day the previous 24 hours nice to reset a little bit kind of get our bearings As for his home run after just one extra-base hit off a non-position contestant in his last games It felt amazing Story commented Toro came through with his glove too Taking over for Garrett Whitlock with two on and two out in the seventh Brennan Bernardino discovered himself in the middle of what initially looked like a repeat of the club s first-inning defensive debacle Matt Olson ground a - pitch up the middle where Story threw it on a hop to first where Toro made a diving catch and threw wide of home where a run scored Olson was initially ruled safe as it appeared Toro s foot had already left the bag when the ball entered his glove but the Red Sox successfully changed erasing the run and any further threat For a squad which has had several truly terrible luck it was a well-deserved break That was incredible Story raved I did the first half but he did the hardest part I think in staying on the base making the pick on an in-between hop and he doesn t play over there much Kristian Campbell also had a well-deserved night at the plate in his first career meeting at his hometown ballpark In front of dozens of friends and family the rookie went for There was another multi-hit performance from Rafael Devers who went for drove in a pair of runs in the ninth and added to his American League-leading walk total with his th free pass of the season The last Sox member to walk as plenty of times in his first games of the season was Kevin Youkilis in It s been a masterful month of May-hem for Devers he s hit with a on-base percentage and slugging percentage in games We talk about it all the time Story explained of Devers Feels like he s in total command in the box In my opinion the best left-handed hitter in the tournament and just so pumped he s on our squad man He sets the tone For the last several weeks manager Alex Cora has spoken about the rotation needing to pitch deeper in games Yet Giolito was just the latest in a long line of early exit Friday was the eighth time a Sox starter exited before completing the fifth inning with a pitch count under and no more than two runs allowed It was the seventh such start since May and the sixth since May Giolito was at pitches after innings of one-run ball when Cora came out to the mound Yet given who was on-deck to hit the early hook made sense Olson entered the contest for with four career home runs against Giolito Justin Wilson Whitlock Bernardino Greg Weissert and Aroldis Chapman pitched the rest of the way The Red Sox had a four-run lead when Cora sent his closer to the mound Chapman slammed the door with a - - inning The Red Sox are - Championship is a p m on Saturday