Red Sox Clobber Diamondbacks, 16-2
BOSTON -- Mookie Betts blasted three home runs and had eight RBIs to help Rick Porcello remain undefeated at home this season as the Boston Red Sox rolled to a 16-2 rout of the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park.
Jackie Bradley Jr. socked a two-run homer and had three RBIs and Dustin Pedroia logged his team-record fifth-career five-hit game and added two RBIs in the 19-hit attack.
Boston bested its previous season high of 15 runs against Minnesota on June 11.
The Red Sox (64-52) have won three straight games after losing four of five.
Arizona (48-69) had won four in a row before being swept in the three-game series at Fenway.
Betts hit a two-run homer in the first inning and had three-run shots in the second and fifth. It was Betts' second career three-homer game, with the other coming May 31 at Baltimore.
His eight RBIs in a game were the most for any Red Sox player since Bill Mueller hit grand slams from both sides of the plate and added a solo shot for nine RBIs at Texas on July 29, 2003.
Betts, who is now tied with David Ortiz for the team lead with 26 homers, is also the first Red Sox hitter with multiple three-homer games in a season since Ted Williams in 1957.
Porcello (16-3) joined Toronto's J.A. Happ as the majors' only 16-game winners. He improved to 12-0 at Fenway in 2016, and the Red Sox have won all 13 of his home starts.
Dave Ferriss was the last Boston pitcher to start a season 13-0 at Fenway in 1946.
Porcello hadn't won more than 15 games in a campaign, a total he reached with Detroit in 2014. He pitched seven innings, giving up a run on three hits with four strikeouts.
Zack Greinke (11-4) was pulled after only 1 2/3 innings, allowing nine runs on 10 hits - including three homers, two to Betts - with three strikeouts. Greinke had won eight straight decisions before Sunday's debacle.
Michael Bourn clubbed a solo shot for his third homer of the year in the fourth. He added an RBI single in the eighth for the Diamondbacks' only runs. Arizona used seven pitchers in the blowout.
Boston did the bulk of its damage during its seven-run second frame and a six-run fifth.
