The Red Sox opened up a 6-game road trip after the All-Star break with the first of 3 against the Dodgers Friday night at Dodger Stadium and lost a 4-1 decision. The Red Sox led 1-0 going to the bottom of the 8th inning, but Freddie Freeman gave LA its first lead, hitting a grand slam off reiever Brennan Bernardino.

Nick Pivetta turned in a strong performance, and exited with a 1-0 lead, but he ended up with a no-decision. Pivetta gave up just 2 hits in tossing 6 innings of shutout baseball. He walked only 1 and struck out 8, including Shohei Ohtani 3 times.

Jarren Duran, coming off being named as the Ted Williams MVP at the All-Star Game Tuesday night in Arlington, Texas, got the Red Sox on the board with a solo Home Run in the 5th inning. It came off Dodgers starting pitcher Gavin Stone and was his 11th of the season. It turned out to be the only run of the night against Stone and 4 relievers.

Zack Kelly worked around a walk in tossing a scoreless 7th inning. Kelly walked the leadoff hitter to start the home 8th inning and came back to strike out Chris Taylor for the 1st out of the inning.

Brennan Bernardino came on and promptly gave up Double to Ohtani that put runners at 2nd and 3rd. Red Sox issued an intentional walk to Will Smith and that loaded up the bases for Freeman. It was his 7th career Grand Slam.

Daniel Hudson ended the game by getting Dominic Smith to hit into a double play.
Bernardino took the loss.

Locked On Red Sox POSTCAST Notes-
The series continues on Saturday night with 10-game winner Brayan Bello starting for the Red Sox.
The Red Sox are still 11-3 over their last 14 games away from Fenway Park.
The Red Sox were 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position.
Attendance for Friday Night's opener, 51,562

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