CLEVELAND, Ohio — Logan Allen tied career highs with seven earned runs and nine hits allowed Sunday, and the Guardians committed four errors in an 13-3 loss to the Red Sox at Progressive Field.
Boston outfielder Jarren Duran collected four hits and Ceddanne Rafaela drove in a season-high five runs. Rob Refsnyder and Kristian Campbell added two RBI each for the Red Sox.
The Red Sox won their second straight after losing four of their previous six.
Cleveland had not totaled four errors in a game since August of 2023 against Cincinnati.
Sunday marked the first home series loss of 2025 for the Guards, who had won 11 of 18 prior matchups against Boston entering Sunday’s series finale.
Allen allowed a leadoff home run to Refsnyder in the second and walked Campbell with one out before a base hit by Carlos Narvaez put runners at the corners.
He got Rafaela to pop out to Martínez in center, but Martinez was charged with an error when his throw back to the infield was high and skipped off the glove of cutoff man Carlos Santana. That allowed Campbell to score from third and Narvaez to advance to second.
In the fifth, Romy Gonzalez scored on the front end of a double steal as Guardians second baseman Daniel Schneemann mishandled a throw from Bo Naylor and then threw wildly toward the plate.
Rafaela capped the inning with an RBI ground-rule double that bounced off the warning track in right center after Nolan Jones lost the ball in the sun.
Rafaela added a three-run home run — his second of the season — in the seventh off Cleveland’s Joey Cantillo. Gonzalez opened the inning by reaching on a fielding error by third baseman Will Wilson, and Campbell drew a walk.
Early on, Cleveland could not solve Red Sox right-hander Brayan Bello, who did not allow a run until the Guardians broke through for three in the sixth. Bello tossed six innings, allowing six hits and three walks while striking out four for his second win.
Martínez walked and José Ramírez reached on a soft line-drive single to center before Jones blasted a 411-foot home run to center to give the Guardians their only runs of the game.
The drive by Jones snapped a stretch of 189 homerless at-bats and was his first since June 29 against the White Sox as a member of the Rockies.
The Guardians had opportunities to score in the first and second innings when Steven Kwan and Naylor opened each frame with leadoff doubles. Kwan was thrown out at the plate trying to score on Ramírez’s sharp grounder to Gonzalez at first. Naylor was caught stealing third with nobody out in the second to short-circuit a promising start to the inning.
Santana snapped a 0-for-26 skid with a base hit to lead off the eighth off Red Sox lefty Sean Newcomb.
With Cleveland down nine runs in the ninth, Austin Hedges made his sixth career appearance on the mound. He allowed a walk to Campbell and a hit by Narvaez before Duran doubled in a run with a line drove to left center.
Hedges struck out Rafael Devers looking on a 3-2 changeup for his second career punchout.
Next
The Guardians welcome Minnesota to Progressive Field for the opener of a four-game series on Monday. First pitch is set for 6:10 p.m. Right-hander Gavin Williams (2-1, 4.15) will start for Cleveland, while righty Bailey Ober (2-1, 5.04) takes the mound for the Twins. The game will air on CLEGuardians.TV, WTAM 1100 AM and the Guardians Radio Network.
