ST. PETERSBURG -- Xander Bogaerts, extra-base machine.
That has a nice ring to it, and the Red Sox have enjoyed watching him start the season on a three-game tear that reached historic proportions.
Bogaerts, who homered and doubled in his first three at-bats Saturday night against the Rays, is the first player in Red Sox history to have multiple extra-base hits in the first three games of the season.
Bogaerts' RBI double In fact, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the only MLB player to pull off that feat in the last 100 years is Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, who did it in 2015.