BOSTON -- Young teams are going to have trying moments. Tampa Bay's young Rays experienced one such episode in the first inning of Saturday night's 5-2 loss to the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
After leaving New York on a high note following a series win over the Yankees, the Rays lost their three-game series against the Red Sox by taking their second consecutive loss, moving to 62-61 on the season and 4-11 against the Red Sox.
Tyler Glasnow made his fourth start since the Rays acquired him from the Pirates in the Chris Archer trade. The hard-throwing right-hander got off to a rough beginning.
After striking out Mookie Betts to start the game, Glasnow allowed back-to-back doubles to Andrew Benintendi and Mitch Moreland to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead. The inning deteriorated further from that point on.

Moreland stole third and Glasnow walked J.D. Martinez, who promptly stole second. Xander Bogaerts and Ian Kinsler walked to force home a run. Brock Holt then reached when first baseman Jake Bauers threw wildly to second on a force play, allowing Martinez and Bogaerts to score.
Mercifully, Glasnow picked off Kinsler at second to begin an inning-ending double play. Third baseman Matt Duffy received Glasnow's throw, tagging out Kinsler before running across the diamond to tag out Holt, who got caught between first and second.

Glasnow settled in to retire the final 12 batters he faced and 17 of the last 18, allowing only a solo home run to Martinez the rest of the way. On the night, he allowed four earned runs on three hits and three walks while striking out four in 6 2/3 innings.
"The first inning was such a fluke for him," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. "For all of us. Just a lot of odd things. The strike throwing kind of eluded him for whatever reason, but he's got to take a lot of positives from that outing.
"The adjustment was he started to get efficient. He started to challenge guys earlier in the count, didn't fall behind. I know they squared some balls up, but to give up four, give up a home run to J.D. Martinez, that's it. Very impressive to work that deep into the ballgame."

Glasnow allowed that the game did speed up for him "a little bit" in the first.
"Things were a little out of whack," Glasnow said. "I just had to clear it and go back out and get back in the compete mode."
Glasnow said he told himself he wasn't going to get anywhere doing what he did in the first.
"So just go out there and attack them and just know your stuff, and your stuff's going to play," Glasnow said. "So just go out there with confidence and pitch.
"... I think in Pittsburgh, things like that would happen and I wasn't able to go out and complete the day, so I'm definitely happy with going back out after the first inning and getting through 6 2/3."
Old friend David Price started for the Red Sox, and the Rays appeared to be getting out of the gate quickly when they got two aboard with no outs in the first. But the veteran Price, who won the American League Cy Young Award wearing a Rays uniform in 2012, escaped that jam.
Tampa Bay threatened again in the fourth when it got two aboard with one out. But Tommy Pham got doubled off second base after Joey Wendle flied out to left, ending the inning. C.J. Cron finally broke Price's spell with a two-run homer in the sixth. Cron's 23rd homer of the season cut the lead to 5-2.

Price went on to complete seven innings to earn the win and move to 13-6 on the season.
"He's so good," Cash said. "He's so tough. He's done it for a long time. The way he commands the fastball, inside to righties, he just has a knack for getting big strikeouts when he needs to. ... When he needs a strikeout, he knows how to get it."
MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
A night after scoring three in the first against the Red Sox, the Rays appeared ready to do damage in the first against Price when Carlos Gomez reached on an error and Duffy singled, putting runners at first and second with no outs. But Price got to work, first retiring Bauers on a popout. He then struck out Pham looking before snuffing out the threat by getting Cron to ground out back to the box for the third out. Had the Rays been able to get a few runs in the inning, it would have softened the blow from the Red Sox's four-run first.

SOUND SMART
Cron's home run traveled 464 feet according to Statcast™, tying for the longest Rays home run since Statcast™ began tracking, matching J.D. Arencibia's on Sept. 7, 2015.

HE SAID IT
"Yeah, he knows what he's doing." -- Bauers, when asked about Price's performance
MITEL REPLAY OF THE DAY
Tampa Bay challenged in the eighth when Bauers was called out at first. After a review of 2 minutes, 10 seconds, the call on the field stood.

UP NEXT
Diego Castillo will start Sunday afternoon against the Red Sox in a 1:05 p.m. ET contest at Fenway Park. His last four appearances, and six of his last seven, have been scoreless after allowing multiple runs in four of his previous five appearances from July 15-29. Right-hander Hector Velazquez will be the starter for the Red Sox.