Red Sox reactions: Jarren Duran powers comeback win; Payton Tolle dominant in rainy Detroit

X-rays on Anthony’s hand “looked” negative, he said, but he will fly to Boston to confirm the diagnosis with a hand specialist Tuesday.

3) Outside of the sixth inning — when the Red Sox made a couple of rain-aided errors — Tolle was excellent. He struck out eight batters, allowed one hit and issued one walk in seven innings, allowing two unearned runs. Tolle was dominant from the jump and retired the first 12 Tigers he faced before Riley Greene led off the fifth with a rocket double to right.

The only runs that scored against Tolle came on back-to-back throwing errors by Carlos Narváez and Andruw Monasterio in the sixth.

Tolle pounded the strike zone throughout his outing, throwing 59 of his 83 pitches (71%) for strikes. It was the longest outing of his major league tenure to this point.

4) It was something of a miracle that play didn’t stop earlier than it did. In the sixth, the Comerica Park video board told fans to take shelter immediately with heavy rain — and lightning — coming. The lower bowl completely cleared out in what looked like a scene from the 2020 MLB season, minus the cardboard cutouts.

By the bottom of the seventh, it was a monsoon in downtown Detroit. One pitch into the top of the eighth, umpires finally put a stop to things and the grounds crew put the tarp on the field. That delay lasted 28 minutes.

First pitch was moved up 30 minutes, from 6:40 p.m. to 6:10 p.m., but it didn’t stop the weather from wreaking havoc later.

5) A shaky showing from Garrett Whitlock let Detroit back into the game in the eighth. The usually steady setup man let the Tigers turn a three-run game into a one-run game when he allowed two hits (including a two-run Dillon Dingler double) and a walk before striking out Greene with the tying run on second base to end the inning.

It was a different story in the ninth as closer Aroldis Chapman needed 13 pitches to set Detroit down in order.

6) When Duran homers, they are usually no-doubters to the pull side. His clutch blast in the seventh was anything but.

Hitting with the Red Sox suddenly down 2-0 and two men on after Narváez singled and Monasterio walked, Duran got a fastball down the middle and mishit it to the opposite field — while still hitting it hard enough to get out. Duran’s homer left the bat at 98.9 mph and traveled 381 feet with a 33-degree launch angle. It was his third homer in the last four games.

7) Under dry conditions, the Red Sox played a solid game defensively. Then, the rain came and Boston lost it, for at least a minute.

In a scoreless tie in the bottom of the sixth, the dominant-to-that-point Tolle hit Colt Keith with an inside pitch, then walked Jahmai Jones with one out. As Jones drifted off the first base bag, Narváez made the ill-advised decision to try to pick him off — and airmailed it over Willson Contreras’ head to put two runners in scoring position. Matt Vierling then hit a chopper to Monasterio at third, but his wayward throw home (Boston’s second throwing error in seconds) got away from Narváez and allowed both runs to score.

It was the rare instance where a club allowed two runs without giving up a hit in an inning. Through six, the Red Sox had no runs on six hits and the Tigers had two runs on no hits. Hard to do.

8) It wouldn’t be a 2026 Red Sox game without a brutally frustrating example of an offensive chance gone to waste. That came in the third inning when Boston had two men in scoring position with no outs — and failed to score when Willson Contreras struck out, Monasterio ran into an out at the plate and Trevor Story chased a pitch out of the zone to end the inning.

Early on, it was more of the same for a club that went 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position and stranded 13 runners Sunday. Overall, the Red Sox were 3-for-10 in such scenarios and stranded 10.

9) Duran led the way with three hits (his homer, plus two singles) and was one of four Red Sox batters with multiple hits. Yoshida (in replacement duty), Rafaela and Mayer each had two. Yoshida doubled in the big seventh inning.

10) The Red Sox continued their early-season trend of burning ABS challenges way too early in games. Monday’s culprit? Abreu, who lost a challenge on an 0-2 pitch that ended the first inning.

11) Righty Brayan Bello (1-4, 9.12 ERA) will pitch Tuesday for the Red Sox, though the club may use an opener ahead of him in an effort to give him a different look as he tries to get back on track. The Tigers will send rough lefty Framber Valdez (2-1, 3.35 ERA) to the mound.

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