PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Right-handers Wade Davis, Dan Wheeler and Andy Sonnanstine combined on a four-hitter and Sean Rodriguez homered for the fifth time this spring, helping the Tampa Bay Rays to a 7-0 victory over a Boston Red Sox split squad on Tuesday night.
Davis worked four innings, allowing three hits, walking one and striking out five in the sharpest of his three exhibition outings. He allowed five runs and walked three in two innings in a start against Pittsburgh last week.
Wheeler pitched a scoreless fifth, walking one and striking out two. Sonnanstine, competing with Davis for the No. 5 spot in the rotation, allowed one hit, walked none and struck out three over the last four innings.
David Ortiz had two of Boston's three hits off Davis.
Red Sox starter Felix Doubront allowed one hit in three scoreless innings. He has not allowed a run in seven innings this spring.
The Rays scored three runs off Boof Bonser, two of them on Gabe Kapler's fourth-inning single. Rodriguez hit a two-run homer off Junichi Tazawa in the eighth.