Price earns 150th win, Boston sweeps Detroit

DETROIT— David Price sent the Boston Red Sox sailing into the AllStar break with a bit of history Sunday.

Price pitched onerun ball over five innings and the Red Sox finished off a threegame sweep of Detroit with a 63 win. The victorywas the 150th of Price’s career.

“It will be cool to see that on the back ofmy baseball card, because it speaks for itself,” he said. “That’s winning 15 games a year for 10 seasons and I’mdefinitely proud of it.”

The win gives Boston four straight victories and 15 wins in 22 games. The first two games of the series finished after midnight because of lengthy rain delays, but the series finale was played under bright sunshine.

“We had a tough finish, going from London to Toronto and then coming here with two long nights because of rain delays,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. “To be able to grind out these wins and go into the break like this is great.”

Christian Vazquez and Xander Bogaerts each drove in two runs.

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“We’re getting close,” Vazquez said. “We have a couple of things to adjust and if we do that, we’re going to be at the top.”

For the Tigers, a bad season has gotten even worse. They have lost 14 of 16 and have gone 625 since June 1.

“This is a muchneeded break for us,” said Brandon Dixon, who homered for Detroit. “We can go home,

forget about baseball for a few days and come back refreshed.”

The Tigers return from the break with a sevengame road trip, which might be the best news of all. Detroit has gone 325 in its last 28 home games and hasn’t won a series at Comerica since earlyMay.

“I’ve never been through anything like this, at least not at home,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. “Everyone in baseball knows you have to win at home to be any good and

we’re not coming close to doing that.”

Price struck out six, walked two and allowed four hits. He’s allowed 15 earned runs over his past 10 starts, going 60.

“Every five days, we know what we’re getting,” Cora said. “He makes adjustments — one day he’s throwing 94 and the next it is 8990 with a changeup and precision. That’s why he has 150 majorleague wins.”

Detroit played the final eight innings without designated

hitterMiguel Cabrera, who was ejected for arguing a called third strike.

“They told me he was waving his arms around in the dugout, so they threw him out,” Gardenhire said. “I told them he always does that — most of the time I have no idea who he is even talking to.”

Heath Hembree, the fifth Boston pitcher, pitched the ninth for his second career save.

Tigers opener Gregory Soto (03) took the loss.