BOSTON -- Brock Holt might be the Boston Red Sox's lone All-Star representative for now, but that could soon change as shortstop Xander Bogaerts might have gained some votes with a clutch hit.
The Red Sox looked as though they'd squandered a quality pitching performance from Wade Miley, but Bogaerts delivered a bases-clearing single in the seventh inning to lift them to a 4-3 victory over the Miami Marlins, giving the Red Sox a three-game winning streak on the homestand.
Miley on point: Miley struck out a season-high nine, requiring just six innings to match his previous high of eight, and getting five on called third strikes.
But the Marlins pushed ahead in the seventh as J.T. Realmuto lead off with a double and scored on a pool-cue single by Cole Gillespie down the first-base line. Miley would exit with two outs in the inning after a Christian Yelich double scored Gillespie for a 3-1 lead.
The Red Sox scored first on a Ryan Hanigan RBI single, but squandered doing any more damage against Marlins starter Dan Haren after leaving two men stranded in each of the first three innings.
Miley threw 6 2/3 innings of seven-hit ball with two walks on 107 pitches with 71 for strikes.
X gonna give it to ya: Bogaerts, who could become the youngest Red Sox player since Tony Conigliaro (1967) to make an All-Star Game at the age of 22, gave added incentive for voters to push him into the Summer Classic in MLB's Final Vote.
After the Red Sox bats cooled against Haren in the middle innings, Bogaerts delivered the needed injection of offense with a rare bases-clearing single in the seventh.
Bogaerts went 2-for-4 on the night with a double -- his 19th of the season and best among AL shortstops -- in addition to the three RBIs.
Napoli sits, Shaw takes advantage: After being recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket earlier in the day, Travis Shaw was penciled into the starting lineup and produced.
The left-handed hitting first baseman collected his first major league hit while going 3-for-4 with a run scored. The 25-year-old Shaw, who's in his fourth stint with the Red Sox this season, was hitless in nine previous at-bats with Boston.
Shaw's start marked the second straight game Mike Napoli watched as a spectator.
With Shaw's help, the Red Sox bottom third of the order was a catalyst, as Shane Victorino, Hanigan (1-for-2, RBI, run scored) and Shaw all collected hits and scored runs.