Hanley Ramirez hit his first homer in more than a month, knuckleballer Steven Wright was solid into the eighth inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-4 on Wednesday night.
Xander Bogaerts and David Ortiz each had two singles and an RBI for the Red Sox, who rebounded from a 3-2 loss in the series opener on Tuesday for just their fourth win in 11 games.
Adam Jones hit a two-run homer for the Orioles, who ended a stretch of five straight multi-homer games.
Wright (8-4) allowed three runs and six hits, struck out four, walked one and hit two batters. He entered with an AL-best ERA that increased slightly from 2.09 to 2.22 by holding an opponent to three or fewer runs for the 12th time in his 13 starts.
Kevin Gausman (0-4) gave up six runs and seven hits in three innings for Baltimore.
Leading 1-0 in the third, the Red Sox batted around and scored five runs against Gausman. Bogaerts and Ortiz opened the scoring with consecutive RBI singles.
Ramirez then hit first-pitch slider over the Green Monster completely out of Fenway Park for his first homer since May 10, ending a homerless drought of 110 at-bats.
Jones homered into the Monster seats with two outs in the seventh.
Wright was lifted after a one-out walk in the eighth. Matt Wieters and Jonathan Schoop had consecutive run-scoring hits off Junichi Tazawa.
Craig Kimbrel got the final three outs for his 15th save.
Travis Shaw’s RBI single in the second made it 1-0.
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