Zac Gallen pitched six innings allowing only two hits, and Eugenio Suárez hit a two-run double off the Green Monster to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. This victory marks the Diamondbacks’ fifth consecutive win.
Gallen (10-6), making his first appearance at Fenway Park, struck out nine batters and walked four, achieving double-digit wins for the third season in a row. He held a no-hitter until the fifth inning when Connor Wong got a single into right field. Gallen left after 99 pitches with Arizona leading 4-0 in the top of the seventh inning.
Before the game, Gallen signed his name inside the Green Monster and was surprised by the sounds from batting practice. He reminisced about a tour of the ballpark he took with his mother during high school and some games he attended in college.
“It’s fun to think about being on the mound with the guys that have played here over the last hundred years,” Gallen said. “It’s fun to see ‘Sweet Caroline’ in the eighth inning. You grew up a baseball fan, those are things that kind of stick with you.”
The Diamondbacks have won 23 of their last 29 games and now hold the top spot in the NL wild card race. They are four games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.
The Red Sox managed only three hits through eight innings but started the ninth with back-to-back hits off Paul Sewald to score once, making it 4-1 before Sewald retired the next three batters.
Kutter Crawford (8-11) allowed three hits in five innings for Boston, with two walks and three strikeouts. Boston’s pitchers gave up six walks, including four that helped Arizona score two runs in the seventh inning without any hits.
