The first game back at Fenway did not need a clean ending to produce a clean swing.
The Associated Press account carried by ABC News reported that Willson Contreras' three-run home run led the Boston Red Sox past the San Francisco Giants 6-4 on Friday in Rafael Devers' return to Fenway Park following his trade last spring.
The AP placed Devers' solo homer - his 26th this season - in the fourth, immediately after Drew Gilbert's two-run shot had cut Boston's lead to 5-3 before Devers made it 5-4.
What the box and the scoring say
CBS Sports' gametracker batting line lists Devers as the Giants' DH at three at-bats with one run, one hit, and one RBI, matching a 1-for-3 night with the homer. The same CBS scoring board shows "R. Devers homered to center" to make the score 4-5.
NBC Sports Bay Area described a 412-foot solo homer to center and wrote that Fenway booed him early before giving an ovation when a tribute video played; NBC also noted it as his first Fenway homer as a visitor after 95 as a Red Sox. Those NBC details sit beside the AP's simpler line: he went deep in the building he left.
The AP also dated the return: it was Devers' first time back at Fenway since a refusal to play first base contributed to the three-time All-Star being traded to San Francisco 14 months ago.
Boston's five-run inning, then the answer
Contreras jumped on an 85-mph changeup from Giants starter Logan Webb and hit a 450-foot three-run homer over the Green Monster, the AP wrote, part of a five-run Boston inning that made it 3-1 and then 5-1 after a bases-loaded walk and a hit batter. Webb took the loss and fell to 8-8 in that AP account after lasting into the middle of the damage.
Sonny Gray (16-3) worked six innings and allowed four runs, and Aroldis Chapman struck out three in the ninth for his 28th save, per the AP.
