Red Sox 5, Rangers 4: Win and Stay Alive
Briefly

...when Bello has both his slider and changeup working, hitters have no choice but to guess. Tonight, he threw those two pitches 55 times, generated 10 swinging strikes.
Winck did the job a pitcher's supposed to do: he didn't allow a baserunner in his inning. But when the Manfred Man is on in extras, you've got to prevent contact.
After the Rangers plated their extra innings run in one of the most boring ways possible, Enmanuel Valdez showed them how the cool kids do with a towering shot to the triangle to lead-off the bottom of the tenth.
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