PHOENIX — A game that featured multiple defensive lowlights for the Red Sox on Saturday also featured perhaps the club’s best play of the entire season.

The clear highlight of Boston’s 5-1 loss to the Diamondbacks came in the fifth inning at Chase Field, when Corbin Carroll smoked a Lucas Giolito pitch into deep right field and had a clear home run robbed by center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela, who scaled the fence right in front of the ballpark’s iconic pool. Rafaela raced back to the wall and stuck his cleat into its padding it before reaching his glove over the fence and pulling the ball back for the robbery . Rafaela celebrated on his knees on the warning track as Lucas Giolito, in disbelief, exclaimed on the mound.

Carroll’s 100.9 mph, 404-foot blast would have been a homer in 25 ba

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