BOSTON -- The run prevention the Red Sox envisioned for this season took a while to make an entrance, but it has been out in full force the last two days.
And with it came the club’s first two-game winning streak of the season, and what had been an elusive first series victory.
Sonny Gray followed Garrett Crochet’s strong effort on Tuesday with one of his own on Wednesday, lifting his Red Sox to a 5-0 victory in the rubber match of a three-game series against the Brewers and the finale of a six-game homestand at Fenway Park.
A happy flight to St. Louis for Thursday’s off-day seemed hard to imagine a few days ago, when the Sox came home and lost three out of four as their record plummeted to 2-8 for just the ninth time in club history.
But the road to recovery, manager Alex Cora emphasized earlier this week, would start on the mound.
And Gray, who bookended this 3-3 homestand with strong performances, walked off to a standing ovation and doffed his cap to a crowd of 28,660.