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Brandon Lowe hardly looks like he has the build of someone that hit two balls as deep as he did in Fenway Park. He even surprised his own team. Lowe hit a pair of solo homers into the center-field bleachers that totaled 890 feet, Blake Snell baffled Boston’s lineup and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 6-1 Sunday to take three of four from the World Series champions.
The Boston Red Sox have never started a season with pitching like this. Hector Velazquez continued a riveting stretch by the rotation, working into the sixth inning and leading the Red Sox over the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 Sunday for their third win in a row. The first four Boston starters -- Chris Sale, David Price, Rick Porcello and Velazquez - combined to give up two runs over 24 innings. The Red Sox, citing the Elias Sports Bureau, said it's the first time in the club's 118-year history the starters allowed one run or fewer in each of the first four regular-season games. The defending AL East champions won three of four at Tropicana Field under new manager Alex Cora.
Shea Theodore's goal with 2.3 seconds left ended Tampa Bay's seven-game winning streak on Tuesday night.
Devonta Freeman pounded away all night until he finally found a way into the open field, helping the Atlanta Falcons remain in the thick of the tight NFC South race. With sidekick Tevin Coleman out with a concussion and Matt Ryan not particularly sharp throwing the ball , Freeman rushed for 126 yards and a touchdown to key a 24-21 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night. The fourth-year pro scored on a 32-yard run midway through the fourth quarter, darting through a hole on the right side before cutting back to elude the only defender with a shot at tackling him and restore a 10-point lead for the Falcons (9-5), who barely hung on to win for the fifth time in six games. Freeman also caught five passes for a team-high 68 yards and had a first-half fumble recovered in the end zone by teammate Levine Toilolo for a touchdown. Ryan threw an early TD pass to Justin Hardy and finished 17 of 31 passing for 212 yards and no interceptions. The victory kept Atlanta within one game of New Orleans and Carolina in the division standings with two to play. If the playoffs started now, the Falcons would be the second NFC wild-card.
Just days after coach Jimbo Fisher resigned as coach at Florida State University, the team is expected to reach an agreement with Oregon head coach Willie Taggart for the position, according to multiple reports.
Kendrys Morales gave the Blue Jays a much-needed lift after Toronto started the regular season with consecutive losses. Morales hit his fourth career grand slam, Marcus Stroman pitched 6 1/3 effective innings and the Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-2 on Thursday night. "It was just a matter of time before the guys started heating up," Toronto manager John Gibbons said. Morales homered off Blake Snell (0-1) in the third. Stroman (1-0), the MVP of last month's World Baseball Classic, allowed one run and six hits in his 2017 debut.
The Arizona Coyotes, not the Tampa Bay Lightning, looked like the team chasing a postseason spot. Oliver Ekman-Larsson had a goal and an assist during Arizona's three-goal third period, Louis Domingue stopped 36 shots and the Coyotes damaged Tampa Bay's playoff hopes with a 5-3 victory Tuesday night. Arizona, with the NHL's second-worst record, also got goals from Christian Fischer, Christian Dvorak, Radim Vrbata and Connor Murphy. The Coyotes were coming off a 3-1 loss Monday night at Nashville. "I thought our guys were in real good spirits all day," coach Dave Tippett said. "You wonder, tough back-to-back, how they were going to be. They were loose, they were ready to play." Victor Hedman, Nikita Kucherov and Vladislav Namestnikov scored for the Lightning, who remained four points behind Toronto for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 30 saves. "There's been a lot of frustrating games this year, so this ranks up there," Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. "How important the game is to us. That 3-2 lead at home in a must-win for us, to give it up like we did, it's frustrating, to say the least." Tampa Bay has dropped three in a row at home, allowing five goals in each defeat.
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