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BOSTON -- The run support Ryan Dempster lacked in his previous two starts came in abundance Tuesday night. Dustin Pedroia and the Boston Red Sox backed Dempster with a season-high 20 hits, giving him an early cushion that kept getting bigger in an 11-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies. Pedroia drove in four runs on three hits and a sacrifice fly. Mike Napoli added two RBIs and every Boston batter finished with at least one hit. Jacoby Ellsbury, Daniel Nava and Jose Iglesias had three hits apiece as the Red Sox built a big lead for Dempster after scoring just two runs in his past two starts combined. Dempster (5-8) allowed two runs and six hits over six innings, leaving with an 8-2 lead and picking up his first victory since June 9. "We have an incredible offence. So you just go out there and worry about doing your job. Its just making pitches and executing pitches," Dempster said. "The wins come as a team more than an individual. Thats all I care about is that when I start, we win the game. I want to give us a chance to win the game and was able to do that tonight. And we put up a lot of runs." Dempster got himself in and out of trouble in the first, walking Dexter Fowler to lead off the game. DJ LeMahieus attempt at a sacrifice bunt turned into an infield single as it rolled toward third base without a Boston player fielding it. Dempster got Carlos Gonzalez to pop out to third, then Michael Cuddyer grounded into a double play to end the threat. "I thought the key was in the first inning," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. Boston responded with two runs on three hits in the bottom of the first and led the rest of the way. The Red Sox had at least three hits in every inning until the fifth, when they finally went hitless but still got a runner on base on a two-out walk to David Ortiz. It was also the first inning in which Boston failed to score after roughing up Juan Nicasio (4-4) early. "Its a good hitting club," Colorado manager Walt Weiss said. "Youve really got to command your stuff with that lineup or they make you pay." Wilin Rosario had three hits for the Rockies, including a solo homer in the second all the way out of Fenway Park. Michael Cuddyer extended his career-best hitting streak to 22 games, longest in the majors this season, with a single in the fourth. He finished with two hits. But those were the high points for the Rockies in a game that lasted 3 hours, 40 minutes. Nicasio had his worst start of the season, lasting only 2 1-3 innings and allowing seven runs -- six earned -- on 12 hits. He walked two and struck out two. He had never allowed more than eight hits in a start this season and the Red Sox had that matched after two innings, taking a 5-1 lead with a pair of runs in the first and three more in the second. "He looked like he struggled to find any rhythm or tempo tonight," Weiss said. "He was in bad counts and thats a tough lineup to get through when youre in bad counts. Youre sitting in fastball counts and they know youre throwing your fastball, they dont miss it." The Red Sox tagged Nicasio again in the third, ending his night after Pedroias RBI single gave Boston 12 hits with two outs still to go in the inning. Adam Ottavino inherited runners at first and second, but got the Rockies out of the jam by striking out Ortiz and getting Napoli on a fly to centre. Boston added a run in the fourth after Stephen Drew tripled to centre field on a hit he thought was a home run when it bounced high off the top of the wall. The umpires ruled the ball was in play and Drew was stuck briefly at third. The umpires spent several minutes looking at video replays before returning to the field and signalling that it was going to stay a triple. Boston fans booed loudly at the call, but quickly forgot about it when Iglesias doubled to left and Drew trotted home to increase the lead to 8-2. Nolan Arenado had three hits and an RBI for the Rockies. Dempsters only glaring mistake came in the second inning on a 3-1 slider to Rosario, who drove it out of Fenway Park for his 12th home run of the season. The solo shot cleared the Green Monster in left field and all the signs above it, landing in a raised parking lot across the street. "I didnt see it," Dempster said. "I think it hit a car on the turnpike, probably. It happens." NOTES: The Red Sox topped their 19 hits in a 17-5 rout of Texas on June 4. ... The two-game interleague series wraps up Wednesday afternoon with RHP Roy Oswalt (0-1) facing Boston RHP John Lackey (4-5). ... Nicasio started the season 3-0, but hasnt won since beating San Francisco on May 19. ... Napolis two RBIs gave him 52 before the midway point of his first season in Boston. ... The Red Sox optioned struggling third baseman Will Middlebrooks to Triple-A Pawtucket before the game. Middlebrooks has hit .192 in 53 games for Boston this season, missing 16 with a lower back strain. ... The Red Sox also recalled right-hander Pedro Beato from Pawtucket after placing left-hander Franklin Morales on the DL with a strained muscle on the left side of his chest.Custom Colorado Rockies Jerseys . The Dane followed up his first European Tour title last weekend with eight birdies and just a single dropped shot on Thursday for a one-stroke advantage over South Africas Allan Versfeld and Portugals Ricardo Santos. Wholesale Rockies Jerseys . Now that hes hitting streaking teammates with pin-point passes for easy layups, Love is asserting himself as one of the true superstars in the league. https://www.cheaprockiesjerseys.us/ . 8 Kansas to a 64-63 win over Texas Tech on Tuesday night. The freshman from Vaughan, Ont. Colorado Rockies Shirts . 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Read moreSpeedy starts:?On the first day of prelims, swimmers set a world record in the mens 100-meter breaststroke (Adam Peaty/UK) and the second-fastest performance in the womens 400 individual medley (Katinka Hosszu/Hungary). Katie Ledecky opened her Olympic program by swimming the anchor leg of the 4x100 freestyle relay. She rallied the Americans from third to second in their heat with the fastest 100 split (52.64 seconds) among teammates Amanda Weir, Lia Neal and Allison Schmitt.American Katie Ledeckys blistering :52.64 anchor leg in 400 free relay not only likely assured her a spot in... https://t.co/Y5JD4M6Vqj- Wayne Drehs (@espnWD) August 6, 2016Latest from mens gymnastics qualifying: Japans defense of its Olympic title got off to a rough start. From defending champion Kohei Uchimura falling off the high bar to world floor exercise champion Kenzo Shirai stepping out of bounds during his set, the Japanese hardly looked dominant. Britain and the United States are scheduled to qualify in subdivision 2, with China and Russia competing in the final session.Team huddle after putting up the best team score of the day so far! pic.twitter.com/ci3iEk0am0- USA Gymnastics (@USAGym) August 6, 2016More water woes: The boat of Serbian rowers Milos Vasic and Nenad Benik capsized on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, where choppy waters left athletes struggling to stay in their boats. They overturned halfway through the 2-kilometer course. Stunned and soaked, they clung to their boat as the other three crews continued toward the finish line.U.S. advaances to gold-medal match: With a 6-0 semifinal?win against China, the United States is assured at least a defense of its silver medal when it faces Korea in the gold-medal mens archery team event.dddddddddddd Brady Ellison, Zach Garrett and Jake Kaminski will try to give the U.S. its first gold medal in the team event since the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. The pairing is a rematch of the London gold-medal contest, which included Ellison and Kaminski.?Belgiums Van Avermaet prevails in road race: The Belgians late sprint in the final kilometer helped him edge out Denmarks Jakob Fuglsang and Polands Rafal Majka to win the mens Olympic road race. His win came after Italys Vincenzo Nibali, one of the prerace favorites, and Colombian counterpart Sergio Henao crashed while trying to navigate a corner on the final harrowing descent of the 6-hour race. Read moreEarly singles exit for Jack Sock: The American lost 6-4, 6-4 against world No. 118 Daniel Taro on the first day of the tennis competition. Sock said after the match that he will continue to play in the doubles despite revealing he is suffering from walking pneumonia. It wasnt easy for me. The night before I got here, I went to the doctor and he told me I had walking pneumonia, said Sock, who added that he feels all right off the court but cant keep up on it. I tried to come down and play, and you could probably hear the cough out there. I wanted the experience, to be a part of the Olympics.?@bgtennisnation thanks for the support bg! Im guessing you won every match in your career that you were supposed to? ????????- Jack Sock (@JackSock) August 6, 2016Coming later ...Womens soccer: United States-France, 4 p.m. ETMens hoops: United States-China, 6 p.m. ETSwimming finals: (Chase Kalisz gold-medal watch in 400 IM; Conor Dwyer gold-medal watch in 400 free; Katie Ledecky to swim anchor leg of 4X100 free relay), 9 p.m. ETWomens tennis: Venus Williams versus Belgiums Kirsten Flipkens, 5:45 p.m. ETInformation from The Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '