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Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images Somehow only 3 hits can still win you a ballgame! Today’s game was wonky. There wasn’t a lopsided score, or any insane errors, or Crochet giving up a grand slam to Big Dumper like Buehler did. The Red Sox won...on three hits. A Marcelo Mayer solo shot, a Trevor Story two-run blast (the second run due to a Marcelo Mayer walk), and a Connor Wong … [Read more...] about Red Sox 3, Mariners 1: A Fourth Series Win in a Row

Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images A series win would surely lift the spirits! It has been a very explosive, dramatic, eventful, and emotional few days. The Raffy trade remains the hot topic and will continue to be so in the coming days and maybe weeks. The 2025 Sox roster quieted the narrative that they’d suffer without Devers in Game 1, and then proceeded to get completely … [Read more...] about Game 76: Red Sox at Mariners, Crochet vs. Castillo

Photo by Don Collier/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images Buster Posey recognized that superstar players are not being valued properly by some teams, and struck at the perfect time. “The Rafael Devers-to-San Francisco blockbuster has executives across baseball confounded. On one hand, the Red Sox got out from a deal every model in baseball has as underwater — and got … [Read more...] about The Red Sox “model” missed the mark, once again

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images And, if you’re hate watching James Tibbs, you’ll be a fan of this article. Good morning! Thanks to everyone for their condolences on my sweet dog, Cassie. She slept most of the day before her appointment but was taken for a nice walk by the water, ate a ham and cheese sandwich, some ice cream and much chocolate, and … [Read more...] about Minor Lines 6/17: Wilyer Abreu clutch in rehab appearance

Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images We’re not streakin’ anymore. All’s well that ends well, but what about things that end poorly? What then? I guess if you’re gonna end a winning streak it’s fine to get punched in the mouth rather than fritter it away. Not subtle. But since the Sox are gonna win more games without Devers than with him, it’s just a speed bump, right? Are we in … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 6/18: Putting on clothes

Photo by Olivia Vanni/Getty Images The string of solid starting pitching performances ends in a complete dud! During the Red Sox six game winning streak entering tonight, they gave up a grand total of eight runs in all of those contests combined. Tonight? Walker Buehler allowed eight runs by the fourth inning! Absolutely nothing was working. Buehler looked … [Read more...] about Mariners 8, Red Sox 0: Walker Buehler breaks Boston’s winning streak

Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images News and notes from around a shocked Red Sox Nation. Things are ugly in Red Sox Nation right now. And I have a bad feeling that we haven’t hit bottom yet. Here’s Joon Lee — a guy who previously worked for two media outlets you might have heard of called ESPN and Over The Monster — with a scathing look at the … [Read more...] about Red Sox News & Links: The Devers trade fallout is going to take some time to settle

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Tonight, the Red Sox try to extend their winning streak to seven games. Tonight is a sneaky big game for the Red Sox. If they win, they not only extend their win streak to seven games, but with Garrett Crochet on the mound tomorrow and then an off day on Thursday, a win tonight represents a key step in potentially entering Friday’s … [Read more...] about Game 75: Red Sox at Mariners, Buehler vs. Woo

Photo by Heather Diehl/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Good morning. It’s June 17, the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. As any good Boston nerd knows, the Battle of Bunker Hill didn’t take place on Bunker Hill, but on Breeds Hill. Time has a way of not only making us forget, but of distorting the past. What will time do to the Rafael Devers era? It’s … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 6/17: The present becomes the past