Max Fried improves to 6-0 as Braves beat Red Sox 6-3

BOSTON (AP) — Austin Riley had a tie-breaking, bases-loaded triple to help Max Fried improve to 6-0 as the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves beat the rebuilding Boston Red Sox 6-3 on Monday night.

Adam Duvall belted a homer over the Green Monster and Nick Markakis had three hits and drove in two runs for Atlanta, which entered the three-game set winless (0-12-3) in its last 15 series against the Red Sox.

“That's the goal every time I go out there,” said Fried after the Braves improved to 8-0 in his starts this season. “I didn't have the best stuff and put us down.”

After trading five players off its MLB roster in the last two weeks, Boston, buried in last in the AL East, lost for the 23rd time in 35 games in this pandemic-shortened season.

Alex Verdugo had three doubles for the Red Sox.

Fried gave up two runs for just the second time in eight starts this season, breaking his string of six straight allowing one or none. In five innings, he gave up five hits, fanned five and walked two.

“He wasn't real sharp," Braves manager Brian Snitker said. "That's the thing about Max, he keeps making pitches and got through it."

Mark Melancon got the final three outs for his seventh save in eight chances.

With the score tied at 2-2 in the fifth, the Braves loaded the bases against starter Colten Brewer (0-3) before Riley’s triple off the top of a low wall down the right-field line on the second pitch from reliever Phillips Valdez.

“I forgot how low it was down there,” Riley said. “I thought it was foul at first. I was lucky to get a triple.”

Duvall’s homer left Fenway Park and tied it in the fourth after Fried balked home a run.

Brewer was charged with five runs in four-plus innings.

“We tried to give him a chance to get a win and try to get him actually...

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