Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 5, Boston 3
When: 8:00 PM ET, Sunday, August 29, 2010
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Paul Emmel, 1B - Bill Hohn, 2B - Gary Darling, 3B - Bruce Dreckman
Attendance: 23438

Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena homered to lift the Tampa Bay Rays to a 5-3 over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night at St. Petersburg, Fla.

James Shields (13-11) notched the win. He pitched 6 2/3 innings, allowing seven hits and three runs while fanning eight. Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth for his 39th save.

Pena’s solo homer opened the scoring in the fourth inning. Boston took a 2-1 in the fifth on RBI singles by Yamaico Navarro and Marco Scutaro.

The Red Sox made it 3-1 in the sixth inning on an RBI single by Daniel Nava, but Tampa Bay scored three times in the bottom of the sixth to take the lead.

Crawford smashed a two-run homer to tie the game. Evan Longoria followed with a ground-rule double and scored on a single by Saturday night’s hero, Dan Johnson.

Johnson hit a walk-off homer in the 10th inning on Saturday.

John Lackey took the loss, surrendering five runs on nine hits in 6 1/3 innings. Lackey (12-8) walked three and struck out seven.

The Rays won the final two games of the three-game series to remain tied with the New York Yankees atop the American League East standings. Meanwhile, the Red Sox fell 6 1/2 games behind the two teams.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Boston   Tampa Bay
John Lackey Player James Shields
Loss W/L Win
6.1 IP 6.2
7 Strikeouts 8
9 Hits 7
7.11 ERA 4.05
Hitting
Boston   Tampa Bay
Mike LowellPlayer Carl Crawford
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 2
0 HR 1
3 TB 5
.500 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Boston 7 0 9 .206 11 10 3 2 0 0
Tampa Bay 11 2 18 .344 10 8 5 4 0 0