Sports Xchange: Rays Hold Off Late Red Sox Comeback

By Gethin Coolbaugh, The Sports Xchange

BOSTON -- Alex Cobb set the tone with six one-hit innings for the Tampa Bay Rays, and the bullpen took it from there. 

Jose Alvarado, Erasmo Ramirez, Danny Farquhar and Alex Colome combined for 2 2/3 scoreless innings after Cobb gave up four in the seventh to lift the Rays to a 5-4 win over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.
 
"The pitchers we asked to come in there did a really, really nice job," Rays manager Kevin Cash said.

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