The Boston Red Sox secured a series victory over the Sacramento Athletics with a 5-4 comeback win at Sutter Health Park on Thursday, July 30, 2026.
Wilyer Abreu and Willson Contreras hit consecutive home runs in the eighth inning to turn the game around.
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Boston's win marked their 20th in 24 games this month, despite committing two more errors, bringing their series total to six.
Game Recap
Sacramento jumped out to an early lead, scoring once in the third inning on Jacob Wilson's RBI.
In the fourth, doubles from Jonah Haim and Lawrence Butler, plus a Donovan Walton RBI single, made it 3-0 against Red Sox starter Sonny Gray.
Gray allowed four runs over seven innings, his second straight start without a quality outing, though he struck out Wilson to escape a bases-loaded jam in the fourth.
Boston rallied in the fifth against Mason Barnett.
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Caleb Durbin was hit by a pitch, advanced on Jarren Duran's groundout, and scored on Andruw Monasterio's single.
Anthony Seigler added a two-out single, and Ceddanne Rafaela tied the game with a two-run double to left field, aided by Walton's throwing error.
In the sixth, Duran showed frustration after popping out, upset that Contreras didn't tag up from third base.
Abreu and Contreras then delivered the decisive blows in the eighth off Luis Medina, with Contreras launching a 414-foot homer to left-center.
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Greg Weissert pitched a scoreless eighth for his first hold since June 25, and Aroldis Chapman closed it out in the ninth despite allowing a double.
