Wilyer Abreu will get back-to-back multi-HR video games as Red Sox surge

Boston Red Sox

Abreu is the primary Red Sox participant to perform that feat since Mookie Betts in 2016.

Wilyer Abreu has been on one other degree at Fenway Park this weekend.

The proper fielder with loads of pop in his bat had it on full show on Friday night time towards the Tampa Bay Rays, launching a pair of house runs into the hometown crowd and guiding Boston to a hard-fought win.

He wasn’t stopping there, both.

Saturday night got here round, and Abreu’s bat stayed sizzling. He launched a lead-taking solo house run early in Saturday’s sport, watched that lead evaporate, then mashed a second house run to place Boston again on prime once more within the seventh inning.

Four house runs in below 24 hours. And with back-to-back multi-home run video games, Abreu joined some elite firm in Red Sox historical past.

Abreu is the primary Red Sox participant to realize that feat since Mookie Betts did it over 10 years in the past (May 31-June 1, 2016). He’s additionally simply the second Red Sox all-time to take action at Fenway Park, becoming a member of George Scott, who did all of it the best way again in 1971.

“Just stayed humble, tried to find a good pitch to hit, tried to not chase too much,” Abreu stated postgame. “This is amazing right now the way we’ve been playing in the last month … I love playing here, I love this crowd. All I can say is that this is amazing playing here.”

If it felt like Abreu had some further juice following that second house run, Ceddanne Rafaela definitely thought he did.

With the win, Abreu moved Boston over .500 after a protracted and onerous battle out of the cellar within the American League. It has an opportunity for win No. 13 in a row Sunday.