On Saturday afternoon, Craig Breslow got his first career major league start and did everything the Red Sox could have asked of him. Having decided that the rotation needed a bullpen day, Boston got just what it needed out of Breslow and the rest of the relief pitching staff: a shutout performance from 6 different pitchers, Boston’s second straight shutout of Baltimore.

Breslow worked four shutout innings, but by the time Heath Hembree came in to relieve the lefty, the offense hadn’t put up any runs in support. Wei-Yin Chen was pitching pretty well himself for the Orioles. So well, in fact, that he’d only allowed a single hit (a Dustin Pedroia single) through 4 innings, retiring each of the other 12 batters he faced.

But with 1 out in the 5th, Chen walked Brock Holt on five pitches and then grooved an inside changeup to Josh Rutledge, who absolutely cleaned it out to left field, where it hit the Green Monster so hard that it rolled about halfway back to third base. This gave Holt just enough time to squeeze his foot in ahead of the tag at home plate to give Boston a 1-0 lead.

Holt had a great day in the field (at 3rd base) and at the plate. During the first of Matt Barnes’ two scoreless innings of work, he made this quick, powerful throw on a literal Baltimore chop from Manny Machado:

In the bottom half of the inning, he singled home Rusney Castillo, who’d doubled with two outs.

The Red Sox got two more runs in the bottom of the 7th when 2013 Gold Glover Manny Machado let a ground ball from Xander Bogaerts scoot directly under his glove, scoring Blake Swihart from third and Mookie Betts from second.

Holt kept doing Brock Holt things in the top of the 8th. With Alexi Ogando pitching, the Brock Star charged down the line and made a slick play to get Nolan Reimold at first.

After Ogando let two runners reach, Tommy Layne came in to get Chris Davis to pop out and Noe Ramirez came in to face Steve Pearce, who flew out to center field.

Holt scored again during an error-laden 4-run 9th inning for the Red Sox. He reached on an error and came home from third on a goofy ground-rule double down the right field line by Betts.

This inning also contained an odd case of deja vu: the Sox’ final two runs came on another ground ball from Xander Bogaerts to Manny Machado, who again biffed a play he should’ve made, again scoring runners from second and third. Pretty bizarre. And poor Xander gets no RBIs for his hard ground ball contact. I’m sure he’ll be able to sleep at night, don’t worry.

Finally, Holt made a dangerous play in the 9th on a popup that fell perilously close to the Baltimore dugout, where Buck Showalter made a token gesture to save the Red Sox third baseman from falling down the steps. Yeah right, Buck.

Bogaerts also made a great play behind Jonathan Aro in the 9th, diving for the last out of the game.