BOSTON - After three days of entertaining baseball, the Red Sox crashed back down to earth on Monday.
With the Mariners long gone, old friend Terry Francona and the Indians got after Red Sox spot starter Matt Barnes en route to an 8-2 win over the Sox.
Barnes, who was scratched from his Saturday start in Pawtucket to start tonight in place of the concussed Steven Wright, was roughed up his second time through the lineup, allowing five runs in the fourth inning on five hits and a walk.
A couple suspect fielding plays, one in right field by Jackie Bradley Jr. and another in left field by Hanley Ramirez, didn't help matters, but the Indians did enough damage on their own.
Michael Brantley and Carlos Santana both got one-out hits, and Abraham Almonte pushed the first run across with a squeeze bunt.
That's when Lonnie Chisenhall doubled over Ramirez's head to drive in two more and make it 3-1.
The Indians would add two more runs in the inning and the Sox did not have anything in the tank to mount a comeback like that of Sunday's.
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Barnes lasted five innings, giving up a solo home run to Carlos Santana in the fifth.
The Red Sox actually had a 1-0 lead going into the 4th inning after a Travis Shaw home run to right field. He came through again with a single in the ninth to make it 8-2, but that was the extent of the scoring. In total, the Sox were held to six hits.
Indians starter Danny Salazar allowed just the one run on Shaw's home run through seven innings. He allowed just four hits and one walk in total on the night, striking out five.
Reliever Heath Hembree allowed a run on two hits with two strikeouts in 2 1/3 innings. Hembree allowed a solo home run to Chisenhall in the sixh inning. Layne also allowed a run on two hits with two strikeouts, but pitched 1 2/3 innings.