Red Sox Throttle Astros, Game 4 Of ALDS On Monday

BOSTON, MA — Two plays in right field said all anyone needed to know about Sunday's American League Division Series Game 3 at Fenway Park. Both went in the favor of the Boston Red Sox as they overcame an early deficit to squash the Houston Astros, 10-3. The teams will meet again at noon Monday on the FS1 Network.

Houston for the the third-straight game scored in the first inning, this time three runs. Carlos Correa launched a two-run home run over the center field wall to give the Astros a 3-0 lead and all the momentum in the top of the first inning.

Fenway Park seemed unusually quiet through the first inning but came alive in the top of the second inning when Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts robbed Houston's Josh Reddick of a home run that would've sent the Astros' lead to an even greater advantage.

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Boston scored one run in the bottom of the second and three more in the third to take a 4-3 lead. The Red Sox blew the game open in the seventh with a six-run outing, closing the door on the Astros. In that seventh, Red Sox centerfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. hit a ball down the right field line that hot the glove of a leaping Reddick, and Bradley rounded the bases to a by-now raucous Fenway crowd.

Boston pounded out 15 while the Astros noticed 13 of their own.

Image: A ball hit by Boston Red Sox's Jackie Bradley Jr., pops out of the glove of Houston Astros right fielder Josh Reddick and over the fence for a three-run home ruduring the seventh inning of Game 3 of baseball's American League Division Series, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)