ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays tied Major League Baseball’s post-1900 report for 13 consecutive wins at a season’s begin, rallying to beat the Boston Red Sox 9-3 Thursday behind a seven-run fifth inning that Harold Ramirez started and capped with doubles.
Tampa Bay matched the 13-0 begin of the 1982 Atlanta Braves and 1987 Milwaukee Brewers. The solely longer opening streak was a 20-0 begin by the1884 St. Louis Maroons of the Union Association.
Playing earlier than a crowd of 21,175, the most important at Tropicana Field since opening day, the Rays set a staff report for wins at any level in a season by topping a 12-game run in June 2004.
Boston, held to 4 hits, has misplaced 13 consecutive video games on the Trop.
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