The Red Sox (60-51) walked off with a 2-1, 10-Inning win over the Houston Astros in the series opener at Fenway Park. The Sox have won 7 of 9 and are a season-high 9 games over .500.  Roman Anthony delivered the game-winning hit in the Bottom of the 10th Inning. It's the 9th walk-off win of the season for the Red Sox and their first win in a series opener since the all-star break.       

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Calling on Cooper: Cooper Criswell made his first start and his 7th appearance overall in 2025 in Friday night's opener and he turned in a strong performance. Criswell gave up just 1 run (1 ER) on 7 hits in his 7.0 innings of work. Christian Walker touched him up for a 2-out, solo Home Run in the 2nd Inning. Criswell walked 2 and struck out 4. (84 Pitches-55 Strikes). He exited with the game tied at 1-1. It's the 2nd straight outing where a Sox starter went 7.0 or more innings and 20th overall.  

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Sox at the Dish: The Sox were shutout down over the first 6.0 innings by Hunter Brown. Trevor Story was the first batter to reach to start an inning with a leadoff walk in the 7th Inning. Story stole 2nd and moved to second on his 18th stolen base of the season. The next hitter, Masas Yoshida, was hit by a pitch.  Both were moved up on a sacrifice bunt from Carlos Narvaez. The Sox tied it up on a sacrifice fly from Wilyer Abreu that scored Story.        

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It's Anthony's first career walk-off hit in the Majors. 

The Sox are now 7-10 in extra-innings and 6-3 at home.

The Sox have won 10 of their last 11 at Fenway and are 18-4 over their last 22 at home. 

The Red Sox committed 3 errors in Friday's series opener. 

The Red Sox collected 2 more extra-base hits (2 Doubles) in Friday's win and now have (125) Extra-Base Hits over their last (28) Games.       

With the Astros scoring first Friday night, it's the 9th time the opposing team got on the board first in the last 13 games.   

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What's On Tap?: The Astros and Sox continue their series Saturday afternoon at Fenway.  Walker Buehler is slated to start Saturday. Lucas Giolito will take the ball for the Sox in the finale on Sunday.  The Sox are now in a stretch of playing 9 of 12 at Fenway. The Sox being a 3-game series vs .the Royals on Monday.  

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