Over the Monster

Eric Canha-Imagn Images Boston won its fourth game in a row on Saturday night with an extra-innings victory that shouldn’t have gone to extra innings. After looking rather dominant through six innings, mostly thanks to another great start from ace Garrett Crochet, the Sox bounced back from allowing a three-run home run in the top of the seventh with Triston Casas’ first … [Read more...] about Red Sox 4, White Sox 3: This is Casas’ house

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Plus, Vaughn Grissom has five more hits as Worcester drops 20 runs in Rochester on Friday night. The Red Sox won in their yellows, and well, you read the headline, so I could say anything in this section: Pluto was named a planet again; I’ve acquired a bridge in Brooklyn and I’m renaming it the Manny Ramirez Bridge; … [Read more...] about Minor Lines 4/18: Marcelo Mayer drives in seven runs

Eric Canha-Imagn Images That’s more like it. This is what Chaim Bloom signed up for. I hope he’s happy. Not really, but you get it. … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 4/19: Story’s time

Eric Canha-Imagn Images After an exciting Friday night win propelled by Trevor Story, the Red Sox have a chance to keep the momentum rolling with their ace on the mound. Garrett Crochet will become a third different color of Sox in his career as he dons the City Connect yellows for a Saturday spectacle at Fenway. Crochet will face Chase Meidroth in the leadoff spot. … [Read more...] about Game 22: White Sox @ Red Sox, City Connect… Saturday?

Eric Canha-Imagn Images And we kept them on the hook The Red Sox are a better team than the White Sox. For the first time this season, it looked like it tonight. From the jump, the Red Sox took a lead thanks to Trevor Story’s three-run home run. They didn’t look back from there. I’ll go into more detail later, but I didn’t think Hunter Dobbins was overly sharp. At the … [Read more...] about Red Sox 10, White Sox 3: They Are Who We Thought They Were

Photo by Alyssa Howell/MLB Photos via Getty Images News and notes from around Red Sox Nation. For the rest of my baseball life, I will probably insist that Garrett Whitlock could’ve made it in the rotation— and likely would’ve been more valuable there — which is what I’ve been saying about Jonathan Papelbon all these years. But regardless of hypotheticals, there’s no … [Read more...] about Red Sox News & Links: Garrett Whitlock, relief ace

Paul Rutherford-Imagn Images On Fridays we wear yellow The Boston Yellow Sox are back! For the first time this season, the Fenway home team is breaking out the city connect uniforms. I think the plan is to wear yellow for every Friday home game, but it is marathon weekend, the weather is turning, the team has won two games in a row, and the vibes are high. Hunter … [Read more...] about Game 21: White Sox @ Red Sox, City Connect Night

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images The boys are back in town The Red Sox are back in action tonight against the White Sox and thank god because I barely survived yesterday’s day-off. But as tough as it is to endure a day without baseball, at least we don’t have to go to Norway to get our fix. That’s the situation that poor Loukas Soukeras finds himself in as the last … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 4/18: Red Sox baseball makes for a good Friday

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images And hopefully, some payback Fresh off a rebound series that saw them take two out of three from the Tampa Bay Rays on the road, the Red Sox welcome the Chicago White Sox to Fenway. The Pale Hose took two of three from Boston just last week accounting for two of their four wins on the season. Losing two games to a … [Read more...] about Series Preview: White Sox at Red Sox for Marathon Weekend