Trevor Story hits pair of three-run home runs, Red Sox beat White Sox 10-3

When the Red Sox signed Trevor Story back in March of they maintained they were bringing in one of the competition s premier shortstops Injuries have prevented Story from meeting those expectations through his first three seasons in Boston but now he s starting to look like the elite hitter the Red Sox thought he could be all along Story enjoyed one of the best offensive performances of his Red Sox career on Friday hitting a pair of three-run home runs to help lead Boston past the Chicago White Sox - He finished the night for with six RBI and it marked his th career multi-homer contest though only his second in a Red Sox uniform Overall Story is now batting with five home runs RBI six stolen bases and a OPS through his first games Coming into Friday runs had been hard to come by for the Red Sox but for whatever reason the club seems to have no trouble scoring whenever Hunter Dobbins is on the mound After exploding for a season-high runs in Dobbins MLB debut against the Cardinals on April the backed up the rookie in his second career start with another of their best all-around offensive efforts of the season The Red Sox tallied runs on hits as a unit marking just the third time this season the club has posted double-digit runs Boston also clubbed four home runs their majority in a single competition this year Dobbins held up his end of the bargain as well allowing two runs over six strong innings of work He s now posted a ERA for the Red Sox through his first two career starts which bookended a horrific offensive stretch in which the Red Sox scored just runs total over the games between his outings The Red Sox have now scored at least six runs in two of their last three games however and Story in particular looks as calm at the plate as he s looked through his first four seasons with the Red Sox Story got things started by cranking a three-run home run to dead center field in the bottom of the first Rob Refsnyder who also had a terrific day by going for with two doubles tallied an RBI double in the third inning to put the Red Sox up - After former Red Sox standout Andrew Benintendi hit a solo home run to lead off the fourth Ceddanne Rafaela hit his first homer of the season a two-run shot to the Green Monster seats that made it - Benintendi s solo shot was the only damage the White Sox were able to inflict on Dobbins through the first five innings The rookie retired nine of the first batters he faced the lone baserunner came on a dropped pop fly by Story in shallow left and Chicago wasn t able to mount a sustained rally until the top of the sixth The White Sox hit two singles and scored on an RBI groundout by Joshua Palacios making it - but Dobbins drew an Andrew Vaughn flyout to wrap up his day He finished with six strikeouts while allowing the two runs on four hits and no walks over six innings Then Story went deep again in the bottom of the seventh to effectively put the battle out of reach and rookie Carlos Narvaez finished up the scoring for Boston by hitting a solo homer to the Green Monster seats in the eighth his first career home run Brennan Bernardino pitched a perfect seventh inning of relief and Josh Winckowski allowed a run in the top of the ninth over his two innings of work