ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jake Odorizzi rebounded from his worst start with a gem.

Ordorizzi and two pitchers combined on a one-hitter as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 7-0 on Saturday.

Coming off a start Monday in which he gave up a career-high eight runs over four innings in a 9-1 loss at Baltimore, Odorizzi (10-11) allowed a fourth-inning single to Will Middlebrooks, three walks and struck out seven over seven innings.

“He had a really good look about him,” Rays Manager Joe Maddon said. “Everything was working.”

Jeff Beliveau and Kirby Yates completed the one-hitter. Tampa Bay set a single-season team record with its 18th shutout.

Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia was removed in the second inning due to concussion-like symptoms. Pedroia was struck in the head by the arm of Logan Forsythe as the Rays infielder was sliding head-first into second.

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“He caught him with a good elbow to the left side of the head,” Boston Manager John Farrell said.

“We’ll take every precaution necessary with Dustin.”

James Loney had an RBI double during a three-run second off Allen Webster (3-3) that put the Rays ahead 3-0. Ben Zobrist made it 4-0 on his second run-scoring grounder of the game in the fourth.

Tampa Bay went up 7-0 with a three-run fifth.

Webster gave up six runs and five hits in four-plus innings.

The start of the game was delayed 12 minutes after a series of stadium lights at Tropicana Field went out during a thunderstorm just before the scheduled first pitch.

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TRAINER’S ROOM

RED SOX: Bogaerts was activated from the seven-day concussion list. He missed six games after being hit in the head by a pitch from Seattle’s Felix Hernandez August 22.

RAYS: CF Desmond Jennings missed his second straight game because of a sore left knee.

UP NEXT

Red Sox RHP Clay Buchholz (5-8) and Rays RHP Alex Cobb (9-6) are the scheduled starters Sunday. Cobb is 7-0 with a 2.14 ERA over his last 11 starts.

LET’S MAKE A DEAL

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Boston sent utilityman Kelly Johnson and Portland Sea Dogs third baseman Michael Almanzar to the Baltimore Orioles for two minor leaguers – infielder/outfielder Jemile Weeks and infielder Ivan DeJesus Jr.

Johnson had only 25 at-bats for the Sox after he was acquired from the Yankees on July 31 in exchange for Stephen Drew.

Almanzar, a Rule 5 draftee by the Orioles during the offseason, eventually was returned to the Red Sox after starting the season on Baltimore’s DL.

Weeks and DeJesus were playing for Baltimore’s Triple-A team in Norfolk. DeJesus is joining the Sox for the second time; he was 0 for 8 in 2012 after he was acquired from the Dodgers.

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