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

Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald on Apr 18, 2025

Published in Baseball

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When the Red Sox signed Trevor Story in March 2022, they believed they were bringing in one of the game’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, 10-3. He finished the night 3 for 4 with six RBIs, and it marked his 20th career multi-homer game, though only his second in a Red Sox uniform.

“I feel good up there,” Story said afterwards. “I feel like myself.”

Story is now batting .321 with five home runs, 14 RBIs, six stolen bases and a .876 OPS through his first 21 games. If he maintains his current pace he’d finish with his best offensive numbers across the board since his last All-Star season in 2019.

“When he’s healthy he’s 30-30, he’s really good,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said, referring to a 30 home run and 30 stolen base season. “We haven’t seen the healthy version of Trevor Story, my job is to keep him on the field and I’ll do my best. Obviously last year that was a freak accident, but when he plays he produces, and so far it’s been fun to watch.”

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 18 runs in Dobbins’ MLB debut against the Cardinals on April 6, 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 10 runs on 11 hits as a team, marking just the third time this season the club has posted double-digit runs.

Boston also clubbed four home runs, the team’s most in a single game 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 3.27 ERA for the Red Sox through his first two career starts, which bookended a horrific offensive stretch in which the Red Sox scored just 23 runs total over the 10 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 comfortable 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 3 for 4 with two doubles, tallied an RBI double in the third inning to put the Red Sox up 4-0.

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 6-1.

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 10 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 6-2, 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.

Cora praised Dobbins’ performance, complimenting his fastball in particular, and Dobbins said he felt a lot more settled this time than in his debut two weeks ago.

“I really wanted to attack the zone today, we found the fastball was getting weak contact and I was able to get ahead in counts with it. It wasn’t really the game plan but that’s how the game went today so we just kind of went with it,” he said.

Story went deep again in the bottom of the seventh to effectively put the game 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.