MIAMI — The Red Sox didn’t make the schedule. They didn’t trade all the best Miami Marlins players out of town. They didn’t decide which former Independent League pitcher would take the mound in a Marlins uniform Monday night.
But they did come out swinging and took advantage of a broken franchise at Marlins Park.
The Sox put up five on Trevor Richards, a former Indy ball pitcher making his major league debut, then continued to pound on the Marlins bullpen in a 7-3 win.
Hanley Ramirez, who hasn’t homered at Marlins Park since 2012 when he was still with the Fish, jumped on a hanging breaking ball and launched it over the left-field wall to put up the fifth and final run on Richards in the fifth inning.