BOSTON -- Payton Tolle struck out a career-high 14 in six innings, Wilyer Abreu drove in three runs, and the Boston Red Sox won their ninth game in a row with a 13-1 rout of the Athletics on Friday night.
Tolle's 14 strikeouts are tied for the second most in a game by an American League rookie over the past 50 years, trailing only Roger Clemens, who fanned 15 in August 1984 when the Red Sox played the Royals, according to ESPN Research.
Tolle (7-6) was perfect through four innings; for the game, he allowed one run on two hits on 84 pitches.
The Red Sox are just the seventh team since 1920 to win 27 or more in a 30-game span, and the only team to begin their run under .500.
Jarren Duran's two-run homer over the Green Monster in left field opened the scoring and sparked Boston's five-run second inning. Jake Rogers had an RBI double, and Abreu added a two-run double.
Three more came across in the fourth off the bats of Andruw Monasterio, Abreu and Masataka Yoshida. Yoshida and Caleb Durbin each added one more to get the Red Sox into double-digit scoring for the second consecutive game.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
