Bohm hit in 7th rallies Phillies over Red Sox 6-5 in Game 1

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alec Bohm delivered again in the clutch for the Phillies.

Bohm hit a two-out, two-run single in the seventh inning to rally the Philadelphia Phillies over the Boston Red Sox 6-5 on Tuesday in the first game of a doubleheader.

Bohm continued his knack for clutch hits, coming through with Philadelphia down to its last strike. The rookie drove in four runs with three hits, including his winner off Matt Barnes (1-3) as the Phillies compete for their first playoff berth since 2011.

“We knew if Bohmer got up, he was getting the job done,” Phillie starter Zach Eflin said. “He’s just playing awesome baseball. It’s really cool to see someone step up like that on multiple occasions and come through for the boys.”

Bohm hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning last week to lead the Phillies to a win over Washington. He also had a game-tying hit in the eighth inning of Philadelphia's win a day earlier against the Mets.

The Phillies started a run of five doubleheaders — all of them seven-inning games — between now and Sept. 22. That highlights a stretch of 19 games in 15 days, including a whopping seven straight games in Miami.

Hector Neris (2-1) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings to get the win in an only-in-2020 one day, two-game series.

Rafael Devers homered twice and Bobby Dalbec continued his homer hot streak for the Red Sox. Alex Verdugo also hit one of Boston’s four solo homers to nearly make a winner out of Martin Pérez.

Pérez took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning in his last start against Toronto. He followed up with an unsteady effort where he walked six batters and allowed four runs in five innings.

Dalbec went deep off in the fifth off Tommy Hunter for Boston’s fourth solo homer of the game that tied the score 4-all. Dalbec...

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