Boston Red Sox’ starter Tanner Houck was perfect through five, but since he’d been coming out of the ‘pen the last few weeks he was apparently limited in terms of pitch count, though the righty’s teammates kept the shutout going through seven after he was lifted.
Washington Nationals’ righty Josiah Gray held the DH-less AL club to a run on three hits in his six innings of work in the second game of the three-game set in D.C., giving up a two-out, two-strike solo home run by Rafael Devers that accounted for the only run for either of the teams through seven and a half.