BOSTON – Nelson Cruz got two flyers and, at 41, became the oldest player in senior history to add 30 homers in a campaign, for the Tampa Bay Rays to win Tuesday 12-7 at Boston Red Sox.
Mike Zunino fired two homers and Jordan Luplow scored another for the team with the best sheet in the American League. Tampa Bay is also the club that has scored the most runs in this big campaign.
Dominican rookie Wander Franco went 4-0 with a ticket. It extended to 37 games his streak basing itself and surpassed to Mickey Mantle (1951-1952) with the greater rollover of this type on the part of a pelotero of less than 21 years in American Liga.
Franco, 20, is now just under Frank Robinson, who won 43 consecutive games in 1956.
A day after the Rays needed to bounce back from a six-run deficit to impose 11-10 in 10 innings, they took the lead 11-1 and threaded their seventh straight win as visitors.
Drew Rasmussen (2-1) took the win. The Venezuelan Eduardo Rodríguez (11-8) was defeated.
For the Rays, Cubans Randy Arozarena 5-2 with two scored, Yandy Diaz 5-0. Dominicans Franco 4-0 with one scored, Cross 5-4 with three scored-four throws, Manuel Margot 4-1 with one scored and a tow.
For the Red Sox, the Puerto Ricans Kike Hernández 5-0, Christian Vázquez 5-1 with a score and a tow. Dominicans Rafael Devers 3-1 with a score, Danny Santana 2-1 with a score and a push. Mexican Alex Botxí 5-3. The Cuban José Iglesias 4-1. Panamanian Jonathan Araúz 4-2 with a drive.