Boston Red Sox at Los Angeles Dodgers

The Red Sox worked their plan to perfection Friday in order to finish off the best winning percentage over a full month in franchise history. After going 21-4 -- their most wins in a month since August 2004 -- with an .840 winning percentage, the Red Sox bid farewell to July and are ready to embrace August. Their 9-4 victory over the two-time defending champion Dodgers went almost as planned, with a few additional twists and turns leading to another win nonetheless. “Obviously the month of July was incredible and necessary with where we were at,” interim manager Chad Tracy said. “We probably didn’t have to do that well, but it was necessary that we played better and got on a run and we got on a heck of a run. We have to continue that now because we’re playing very good baseball.” Not only did the Red Sox get Ranger Suarez another start on his road back from a groin injury, the strategy to finish off the game with Brayan Bello pitching multiple innings after another long rest went seamlessly, more proof of just how magical their recent run has been. Bello was sent to Triple-A in June and recalled July 12 to be something of a spot reliever. Pitching multiple innings once a week, after long gaps of inactivity, Bello has proven to be a quick study. He had a 4 1/3-inning relief outing against the Mets on the day he returned, went 5 1/3 scoreless innings 10 days later against the Baltimore Orioles and had another four scoreless Friday. The success out of the piggyback role has Bello (3-6) in consideration to start again, although why mess with a good thing? “We’ll talk about that,” Tracy said. “We’ve talked a lot about the young starters and on a five-man rotation. You got, after the off-day \[Monday\