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Baltimore Orioles 5 – 6 Boston Red Sox

MLB · July 20, 2026 · Final
🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Boston Red Sox edged the Baltimore Orioles six to five in a back-and-forth slugfest Sunday night, and this one had everything you could want from a midsummer ballgame.

Baltimore drew first blood when Tyler O'Neill laced a ground rule double to bring home Henderson in the first, but Boston answered immediately, and by the third inning the Red Sox had built a three to one lead off a pair of Orioles miscues — Henderson's throwing error opening the door, and the damage was done quickly. Orioles fans got a jolt in the fifth when Casey Encarnacion-Strand launched a three-ninety-five foot shot to left center to pull Baltimore within one, and then the sixth inning turned into a full-on slugfest. Baltimore rallied to take a four to three lead before Willson Contreras punched a double to left to knot it right back up at four apiece.

The seventh brought more chaos — O'Neill grounded out to push Baltimore ahead five to four, but Boston's Ceddanne Rafaela singled home a run aided by another throwing error, this one off Ward's arm in left field, and just like that we were deadlocked at five. Then in the eighth, Zach Durbin put it away with a three-sixty-four foot blast to left center, and that was the ballgame.

Contreras was the engine for Boston, going three for four with two runs batted in, while Encarnacion-Strand carried Baltimore's offense nearly single-handedly. In the end, the Orioles simply couldn't survive their own errors. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

  1. O'Neill hit a ground rule double, Henderson scored. P1 · 1–0
  2. Duran hit sacrifice fly to center, Contreras scored. P2 · 1–1
  3. Abreu doubled to center, Rafaela scored on error, Abreu safe at third on throwing error by shortstop Henderson. P3 · 1–2
  4. Contreras reached on infield single to second, Abreu scored. P3 · 1–3
  5. Encarnacion-Strand homered to left center (395 feet). P5 · 2–3
  6. Jackson singled to left, O'Neill scored, Taveras to third. P6 · 3–3
  7. Encarnacion-Strand singled to center, Taveras scored, Jackson to third. P6 · 4–3
  8. Contreras doubled to left, Abreu scored. P6 · 4–4
  9. O'Neill grounded out to second, Ward scored, Alonso to second. P7 · 5–4
  10. Rafaela singled to left, Cheng scored on error, Rafaela safe at second on throwing error by left fielder Ward. P7 · 5–5
  11. Durbin homered to left center (364 feet). P8 · 5–6

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1
Payton Tolle pitches to Taylor Ward P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Ward fouled out to first. P1
P1
Payton Tolle pitches to Pete Alonso P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Alonso struck out swinging. P1
P1
Payton Tolle pitches to Gunnar Henderson P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Henderson doubled to shortstop. P1
P1
Payton Tolle pitches to Tyler O'Neill P1
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1
O'Neill hit a ground rule double, Henderson scored. P1
P1
Payton Tolle pitches to Coby Mayo P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Mayo struck out swinging. P1
P1
Middle of the 1st inning P1
Bottom of the 1st inning P1
Shane Baz pitches to Anthony Seigler P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Seigler lined out to left. P1
P1
Shane Baz pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P1
Rafaela struck out looking. Boston Red Sox challenged: call on the field was upheld. P1
P1
Shane Baz pitches to Wilyer Abreu P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Abreu struck out swinging. P1
P1
End of the 1st inning P1
Top of the 2nd inning P2
Payton Tolle pitches to Leody Taveras P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P2
Taveras walked. P2
P2
Payton Tolle pitches to Jeremiah Jackson P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Jackson struck out swinging. P2
P2
Payton Tolle pitches to Christian Encarnacion-Strand P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Encarnacion-Strand struck out swinging. P2
P2
Payton Tolle pitches to Sam Huff P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Huff struck out swinging. P2
P2
Middle of the 2nd inning P2
Bottom of the 2nd inning P2
Shane Baz pitches to Willson Contreras P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2
Contreras singled to center. P2
P2
Shane Baz pitches to Masataka Yoshida P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Yoshida singled to right, Contreras to second. P2
P2
Shane Baz pitches to Caleb Durbin P2
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2
Durbin flied out to right, Contreras to third. P2
P2
Shane Baz pitches to Jarren Duran P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2
Duran hit sacrifice fly to center, Contreras scored. P2
P2
Shane Baz pitches to Connor Wong P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Wong struck out swinging. P2
P2
End of the 2nd inning P2
Top of the 3rd inning P3
Payton Tolle pitches to Taylor Ward P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Ward grounded out to third. P3
P3
Payton Tolle pitches to Pete Alonso P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3
Alonso flied out to right. P3
P3
Payton Tolle pitches to Gunnar Henderson P3
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3
Henderson doubled to left. P3
P3
Payton Tolle pitches to Tyler O'Neill P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P3
O'Neill popped out to shortstop. P3
P3
Middle of the 3rd inning P3
Bottom of the 3rd inning P3
Shane Baz pitches to Tsung-Che Cheng P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
Cheng struck out swinging. P3
P3
Shane Baz pitches to Anthony Seigler P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Seigler flied out to left. P3
P3
Shane Baz pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P3
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3
Rafaela safe at first on throwing error by second baseman Jackson. P3
P3
Shane Baz pitches to Wilyer Abreu P3
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3
Abreu doubled to center, Rafaela scored on error, Abreu safe at third on throwing error by shortstop Henderson. P3
P3
Shane Baz pitches to Willson Contreras P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3
Contreras reached on infield single to second, Abreu scored. P3
P3
Shane Baz pitches to Masataka Yoshida P3
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3
Yoshida grounded out to first. P3
P3
End of the 3rd inning P3
Top of the 4th inning P4
Payton Tolle pitches to Coby Mayo P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Mayo struck out swinging. P4
P4
Payton Tolle pitches to Leody Taveras P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P4
Taveras struck out looking. P4
P4
Payton Tolle pitches to Jeremiah Jackson P4
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4
Jackson grounded out to first. P4
P4
Middle of the 4th inning P4
Bottom of the 4th inning P4
Shane Baz pitches to Caleb Durbin P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4
Durbin flied out to right. P4
P4
Shane Baz pitches to Jarren Duran P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
Duran singled to right. P4
P4
Shane Baz pitches to Connor Wong P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4
Wong grounded into double play, first to shortstop to pitcher, Duran out at second. P4
P4
End of the 4th inning P4
Top of the 5th inning P5
Payton Tolle pitches to Christian Encarnacion-Strand P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Encarnacion-Strand homered to left center (395 feet). P5
P5
Payton Tolle pitches to Sam Huff P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P5
Huff struck out swinging. P5
P5
Payton Tolle pitches to Taylor Ward P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5
Ward grounded out to third. P5
P5
Payton Tolle pitches to Pete Alonso P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Alonso hit by pitch. P5
P5
Payton Tolle pitches to Gunnar Henderson P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Alonso caught stealing second, catcher to shortstop. P5
Alonso caught stealing second, catcher to shortstop. P5
Middle of the 5th inning P5
Bottom of the 5th inning P5
Shane Baz pitches to Tsung-Che Cheng P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P5
Cheng struck out swinging. P5
P5
Shane Baz pitches to Anthony Seigler P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Seigler grounded out to first. P5
P5
Shane Baz pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P5
Rafaela struck out looking. P5
P5
End of the 5th inning P5
Top of the 6th inning P6
Payton Tolle pitches to Gunnar Henderson P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6
Henderson grounded out to shortstop. P6
P6
Payton Tolle pitches to Tyler O'Neill P6
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6
O'Neill reached on infield single to third. P6
P6
Payton Tolle pitches to Coby Mayo P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Mayo struck out swinging. P6
P6
Payton Tolle pitches to Leody Taveras P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6
Taveras singled to center, O'Neill to second. P6
P6
Payton Tolle pitches to Jeremiah Jackson P6
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6
Jackson singled to left, O'Neill scored, Taveras to third. P6
P6
Payton Tolle pitches to Christian Encarnacion-Strand P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
Encarnacion-Strand singled to center, Taveras scored, Jackson to third. P6
P6
Guerrero relieved Tolle P6
Tyron Guerrero pitches to Sam Huff P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P6
Huff struck out looking. P6
P6
Middle of the 6th inning P6
Bottom of the 6th inning P6
Shane Baz pitches to Wilyer Abreu P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
Abreu reached on infield single to pitcher, Abreu safe at second on throwing error by pitcher Baz. P6
P6
Shane Baz pitches to Willson Contreras P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 3 : Automatic Ball - Pitch Timer Violation 2 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6
Contreras doubled to left, Abreu scored. P6
P6
Shane Baz pitches to Masataka Yoshida P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
Yoshida grounded out to second, Contreras to third. P6
P6
Shane Baz pitches to Caleb Durbin P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6
Durbin grounded out to shortstop. P6
P6
Shane Baz pitches to Jarren Duran P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
Duran grounded out to second. P6
P6
End of the 6th inning P6
Top of the 7th inning P7
Tyron Guerrero pitches to Taylor Ward P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Ward doubled to right. P7
P7
Tyron Guerrero pitches to Pete Alonso P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Alonso singled to center, Ward to third. P7
P7
Tyron Guerrero pitches to Gunnar Henderson P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P7
Henderson struck out swinging. P7
P7
Tyron Guerrero pitches to Tyler O'Neill P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7
O'Neill grounded out to second, Ward scored, Alonso to second. P7
P7
Beavers hit for Mayo P7
Tyron Guerrero pitches to Dylan Beavers P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P7
Beavers struck out looking. Boston Red Sox challenged: call on the field was overturned. P7
P7
Middle of the 7th inning P7
Bottom of the 7th inning P7
Beavers as designated hitter. P7
Cano relieved Baz P7
Yennier Cano pitches to Connor Wong P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Wong singled to left. P7
P7
Yennier Cano pitches to Tsung-Che Cheng P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Cheng grounded into fielder's choice to second, Wong out at second. P7
P7
Yennier Cano pitches to Anthony Seigler P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Seigler grounded out to second, Cheng to second. P7
P7
Yennier Cano pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7
Rafaela singled to left, Cheng scored on error, Rafaela safe at second on throwing error by left fielder Ward. P7
P7
Wells relieved Cano P7
Tyler Wells pitches to Wilyer Abreu P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7
Abreu flied out to center. P7
P7
End of the 7th inning P7
Top of the 8th inning P8
Whitlock relieved Guerrero P8
Garrett Whitlock pitches to Leody Taveras P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Taveras struck out swinging. P8
P8
Garrett Whitlock pitches to Jeremiah Jackson P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Jackson grounded out to second. P8
P8
Holliday hit for Encarnacion-Strand P8
Garrett Whitlock pitches to Jackson Holliday P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8
Holliday grounded out to second. P8
P8
Middle of the 8th inning P8
Bottom of the 8th inning P8
Holliday at third base. P8
Tyler Wells pitches to Willson Contreras P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Contreras struck out swinging. P8
P8
Tyler Wells pitches to Masataka Yoshida P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Yoshida struck out swinging. P8
P8
Tyler Wells pitches to Caleb Durbin P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Durbin homered to left center (364 feet). P8
P8
Tyler Wells pitches to Jarren Duran P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 7 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Duran struck out swinging. P8
P8
End of the 8th inning P8
Top of the 9th inning P9
Cowser hit for Huff P9
Chapman relieved Whitlock P9
Aroldis Chapman pitches to Colton Cowser P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P9
Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 8 : Ball 4 P9
Cowser walked. P9
P9
Aroldis Chapman pitches to Taylor Ward P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Ward struck out swinging. P9
P9
Aroldis Chapman pitches to Pete Alonso P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Alonso struck out swinging. P9
P9
Aroldis Chapman pitches to Gunnar Henderson P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9
Henderson doubled to left, Cowser to third. P9
P9
Aroldis Chapman pitches to Tyler O'Neill P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9
O'Neill lined out to shortstop. P9
P9