Rick Porcello hit a couple of rough patches near the end of his latest outing for the Boston Red Sox, but the fifth inning couldn’t have been any cleaner.
The right-hander struck out the side in the bottom of the fifth inning, using only nine pitches to retire the three Tampa Bay Rays he faced in the frame. Porcello sent Trevor Plouffe and Wilson Ramos down swinging before freezing Mallex Smith with a fastball inside for a called third strike.
The immaculate inning was only the 89th in baseball history and fourth in franchise history.