Rays beat Red Sox 5-2

After striking out Josh Rutledge the shaky southpaw walked both Xander Bogaerts and David Ortiz.

It was that kind of night for Boston Red Sox left-hander Henry Owens, who allowed five runs (four earned) over 7 1/3 innings in his team’s 5-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park.

“We’re looking for him to be wide open and ready to go come day one of spring training”, Lovullo said.

“He was hyper, he was going insane “, said Ortiz, “he wasn’t 95 miles per hour like past year , but he had a lot of movement… movement is always better than velocity”.

Bogaerts is having a strong year offensively, but his power numbers are down.

Among active players, only Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez with 684 and the Angels’ Albert Pujols with 555 have more home runs than Ortiz, who will celebrate his 40th birthday in November.

The Rays third baseman lofted a ball to deep right field with two outs in the sixth Tuesday, and designated hitter Richie Shaffer tagged from third to tie the game at 2-2. “We’re seeing it of late”. “I didn’t know where to go”, he said.

NOTES: Former teammates Pedro Martinez, Tim Wakefield and Jason Varitek were on the field for pregame ceremonies honoring David Ortiz’s 500th home run.

Moore allowed seven hits and didn’t give up another run after the first inning. The first five guys up did mostly good work, as evidenced by the one inning the Red Sox managed to put runs on the board: the first.

Rays: RHP Nathan Karns won’t make another start this season because of tightness in his forearm, Cash said.

Daniel Murphy lined a two-run double, Yoenis Cespedes had three hits and the Mets handed hard-luck Shelby Miller (5-16) his 15th straight defeat.

Jean Machi (1-0) got one out for the win. Mahtook homered to left on a 2-2 count, Guyer scored.

“I went back and looked at the home run pitch – it was actually a halfway decent pitch“, Gomes said. “It was actually a halfway decent pitch”.

So, uhm, good luck, I guess.

Boston defeated Toronto, 4-3, at Rogers Centre yesterday, taking two of three over the weekend vs. the Jays, and finishing up its nine-game road trip with a mark of 5-4.

And on Sunday, after racing home from third on a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, Sandoval left the game because of “lightheadedness”.

Xander Bogaerts provided most of the offense with a grand slam and an RBI double. T.Shaw doubled to right.

The Sox had their three-game win streak snapped.

But Mahtook hammered a two-run homer into the Monster seats to knock Owens from the game with one out in the eighth inning. Another proof of his success is the 21 swing and misses he induced to the Rays on just 90 pitches. He came in defensively. Tuesday it was confirmed Sandoval has a “significant” upper respiratory infection, which will keep him out a few more days, according to interim manager Torey Lovullo. Lovullo said INF Hanley Ramirez won’t come off the DL until his right shoulder is “pain free”.

Owens hung in there for a scoreless seventh, but the Sox asked for too much by sending him back for the eighth. The Rays are 4-9 in the last 13 meetings in Boston. He gave up Ortiz’s 499th and 500th homers.

BOSTON (AP) – Boston Red Sox rookie Henry Owens started flawless then finished far from it.