Veteran Nelson Cruz continues to impress the world with his skills at a certain age in the best baseball in the world, this time he was the executioner of the Boston Red Sox in a fairly close game in the MLB .
IF something was not lacking in this game it was many hits, doubles and moments of tension at Fenway Park.
Cruz drove in the Rays’ first run on an RBI single by Wander Franco, who hit a triple in the first inning off Chris Sale, who started for the Red Sox.
Then in the top of the fourth inning Nelson Cruz hit the bases loaded off Chris Sale’s throws, hitting a hit to center field that Alex Verdugo couldn’t catch.
The bases were emptied and Nelson Cruz came home with a throwing error. Scoring four runs for the Tampa Rays and putting the game down one run. In the end the MLB He did not mark it as a hit, but as a mistake and the RBI does not count for the Dominican.
Clearing the bases with his second TRIPLE of the season for Nelson Cruz pic.twitter.com/nwVWkHnNoj
– Jonathan Tiburcio📈 (@ TiburcioJ18) September 6, 2021
Then off reliever Adam Ottavino’s shipments, Cruz dispatched his 28th homer of the season over the green monster at Fenway Park to narrow the game in the top of the eighth inning.
Nelson Cruz got the ⚾ on the GREEN MONSTER! 😮
It was his BAMBINAZO # 28 of the season. 💥 #RaysBeisbol pic.twitter.com/vSvt9Cdg9Q
– Tampa Bay Rays (@raysbeisbol) September 6, 2021
That was not all of Nelson Cruz for the Boston Red Sox, but in the top of the 10th inning he hit an RBI single from the tiebreaker run, taking advantage of the defense’s carelessness to get to second base with a good sweep, from a distance he didn’t look like a 41-year-old player.
Nelson Cruz’s fingerprints are all over this game pic.twitter.com/n45uPouHUi
– Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) September 6, 2021
On the other hand, Wander Franco was 6-for-4 with 3 runs scored extending his streak reaching base to 36 consecutive games. Austin Meadowns also hit an inside-the-park home run to tie the game in the ninth inning and avoid a loss for the Rays.
Credit to reliever Colling McHugh who worked the last two innings facing various threats, but came out without a problem.