One year after pitching for the Boston Red Sox, Nick Pivetta found himself pitching against them .

On Friday, Pivetta faced the Red Sox for the first time since joining the San Diego Padres last winter. He struggled against his former teammates, enduring one of his worst outings of the season .

Pivetta, who’d allowed just five earned runs over his previous seven starts , surrendered the same number of earned runs in six innings on Friday night. The NL Cy Young contender traded zeroes with Walker Buehler for three innings before unraveling in the middle frames, yielding four runs in the fourth and another in the fifth.

Pivetta completed the sixth before departing, but the five earned runs were his most in an outing since June 4, raising his ERA from 2.73 to 2.94. He allowed five

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