Devers extended his hit streak to eight games with another multi-hit effort, collecting three hits for the second straight game. He put the Red Sox on the board with a base hit in the third and drove in a second run with a single in the seventh. The 28-year-old third baseman is hitting .256/.373/.451 with five homers and 23 RBI across 161 plate appearances.

Cora was adamant that he’s sticking with Devers at DH and will go with Romy Gonzalez and Abraham Toro at first base in the wake of Triston Casas’ season-ending knee injury. It’s a surprising development since Red Sox president of baseball operations Craig Breslow didn’t outright dismiss the possibility of Devers shifting to first base in his remarks to reporters just a few minutes prior. The Red Sox are likely going to make a move to shore up their first-base situation in the near future, but it certainly sounds like Cora is strongly against the idea of moving Devers out of the full-time DH role.

Devers had gone hitless in five straight games, but he again seemed to move past his timing issues today and raised his OPS from .657 to .722 between the two games.

It seemed that Devers was all fixed up two weeks ago, but he’s since gone 4-for-40 with one homer in 13 games. He has walked 12 times during the span, and he’s not nearly as lost as he was during the first week of the season. Still, it’s been quite the roller coaster season thus far; his two five-game hitless streaks this season are one more than he had totaled in his first eight seasons.