Red Sox’ win included ‘backbreakers’ — and ‘one of the best’ starts of Ranger Suárez’s career

Suárez recorded 14 swings and misses: five with his curveball, four with his cutter, two with his changeup, two with his four-seam fastball and one with his sinker.

“When I’m able to command my four-seam and my sinker, I think that opens the door for my secondary pitches to get swings and misses,” he said.

Suárez kept the Blue Jays hitless until the sixth inning when Jesús Sánchez led off with a double down the left field line.

“I wasn’t thinking about a no-hitter,” Suárez said. “I wanted to get quick outs. That was my mentality — to get quick out so I could go deeper into the game. And also, the defense behind me today was great."

Sánchez didn’t make it beyond second base after his leadoff double in the sixth. The Red Sox lefty struck out both Davis Schneider and Tyler Heineman swinging, then got Myles Straw to fly out to right field to strand Sánchez at second base.

“Obviously after the double, I have to reset and change my mindset for the run not to score. I think that was the only runner that got to scoring position,” Suárez said. “So my mindset was like to not let him score.”

While Blue Jays starter Dylan Cease reached 99.4 mph with his fastball, Suárez dominated with finesse. His fastball averaged 91.2 mph and topped out at 92.7 mph.

“He started out at like 88, 89, and then it cranked up to like 92,” Tracy said. “But his ability to move the ball in and out, change speeds, elevate, go down below zone, get the ball on the plate, like, it’s really good.”

While Suárez dazzled all night, the offense capitalized with two outs. All five of Boston’s runs came with two outs.

“Those are backbreakers at times, especially if they are of the multiple-run variety,” Tracy said.

Marcelo Mayer delivered a two-out single in the fourth that made it 1-0 Boston. With two outs in the fifth, Roman Anthony stroked an RBI infield single and Wilyer Abreu added an RBI double to extend the lead to 3-0.

Caleb Durbin’s two-out RBI single in the sixth made it 4-0. Carlos Narváez’s two-out home run in the eighth made it 5-0.

“Huge. They’re important,” Tracy said about two-out runs.

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