The Red Sox (65-53) could not complete the comeback in the late innings and ended up falling, 5-4 in 10 Innings, to the San Diego Padres Saturday night in front of 42,389 at Petco Park. The Series is even at 1-1 with the finale on Sunday.  The Sox are now 7-11 in extra-innings this season and 1-8 on the road. It's the 11th time this season where the Red Sox got walked off on the road.     

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Going with Gio: After back-to-back strong outings against the Twins and Astros, Lucas Giolito failed to get out of the 5th against the Padres Saturday night.  Giolito exited after walking 4 straight hitters with 2 outs. The 4th walk of the inning put the Padres up, 4-3. Giolito went 4.2 innings and gave up 4 earned runs on 5 hits. He walked 6 and struck out 1. Xander Bogaerts touched Giolito up for a solo Home Run in the 2nd and that tied the game at 1-1. Bogaerts also had an RBI Single in the 3rd. Giolito was taken off the hook when the Red Sox tied the game in the 9th Inning.       

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Sox at the Dish: Red Sox got on the board against Michael King in the 1st Inning. Alex Bregman reached with a 1-out Double and scored on an RBI Single from Jarren Duran. Boston got 2 runs in the 3rd and went up 3-1. San Diego relievers combined to record 8 straight outs with 8 strikeouts from innings 5 thru 7. Alex Bregman reached 4 times in the game with 3 Hits (2 Doubles) and a walk. Ramon Anthoy tied the game at 4-4 with a run-scoring Double in the 9th inning off Padres closer Robert Suarez.           

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At-Bat of the Game: David Hamilton led off the 10th with Trevor Story starting at 2nd Base. Hamilton failed to move the runner to 3rd with less than 2 outs and fouled 3 pitches off on bunt attempts.    

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#'s of the NIGHT:   

--The Red Sox struck out 15 times in Saturday night's loss, including 13 times from the 5th Inning on.  

--The Sox are now 15-22 in 1-run Games.        

--The Red Sox collected 3 extra-base hits (3 Doubles) Saturday night and now have (147) Extra-Base Hits over their last (35) Games and have at least 1 extra-base

   hit in 36 straight games.  

--The Sox have won 8 of Last 10 Series and have won 7 straight home series.   

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What's On Tap?: Brayan Bello is set to go against RHP Dylan Cease in Sunday's finale. After the final game at Petco Park, the Red Sox move on to Houston and open up a 3-game series against the Astros on Monday. The Red Sox have 44 games remaining in the Regular Season with 24 on the road and 20 at Fenway.       

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