Fried, Braves take down Red Sox

BOSTON — Austin Riley had a tie-breaking, basesloaded triple to help Max Fried improve to 6-0 as the NL Eastleading Atlanta Braves beat the rebuilding Boston Red Sox 6-3 on Monday night.

Adam Duvall belted a homer over the Green Monster and Nick Markakis had three hits and drove in two runs for Atlanta, which entered the three-game set winless (0-12-3) in its last 15 series against the Red Sox.

After trading five players off its MLB roster in the last two weeks, Boston, buried in last in the AL East, lost for the 23rd time in 35 games in this pandemic-shortened season.

Alex Verdugo had three doubles for the Red Sox.

Fried gave up two runs for just the second time in eight starts this season, breaking his string of six straight allowing one or none. In five innings, he gave up five hits, fanned five and walked two.

Mark Melancon got the final three outs for his seventh save in eight chances.

With the score tied at 2-2 in the fifth, the Braves loaded the bases against starter Colten Brewer (0-3) before Riley’s triple off the top of a low wall down the rightfield line.

Duvall’s homer left Fenway Park and tied it in the fourth after Fried balked home a run.

After getting into the area around 4 a.m. following their wild, four-hour plus victory over the Phillies in Philadelphia on Sunday night, the Braves jumped ahead 1-0 on Markakis’ RBI double in the first.

Rafael Devers’ run-scoring single tied it in the bottom half.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Red Sox: Placed LHP Darwinzon Hernandez on the 10-day injured list with a sprained left AC joint. . DH J.D. Martinez was out of the lineup after getting hit on the left hand by a fastball in the previous game. X-rays taken after Sunday’s game were negative.

ROUGH FOLLOW

Prospect Bobby Dalbec struck out in all four atbats after homering in his major league debut Sunday.