The Red Sox let a very winnable game get away from them on Wednesday night. And now, their season will be hanging in the balance on Thursday night. The whiplash of consequences in the Wild Card Round is just that severe. And while Alex Cora’s bold decision to yank Brayan Bello with one out in the third inning may be the headline coming out of New York’s 4-3 win, the game was lost in the smaller moments of the game. To wit: Top of the seventh inning, tie game, two on, nobody out after an absolute gift from Aaron Boone…
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FOXBORO — Warning: blasphemy below. Sports sacrilege. The type of column you can get away with in any other city, but not here. Still, here goes a Hail Mary, because all unsaid prayers go unanswered. The Patriots can lose Sunday night in Buffalo and still leave with a victory. A moral victory. And that shouldn’t be discounted. I know, I know. Pathetic. Ugly. A verbal participation trophy for professionals living in, working for and representing the city of champions. But here’s the truth about the Patriots’ most anticipated regular-season game in almost four years: they will almost assuredly lose. History…
Week 5 is always a fun one on the high school football calendar, particularly here in the Bay State. For the majority of schools, it often serves as a gateway to league play. It can be a blessing for some, or quite the opposite, pending strength of schedule. From now until the postseason, squads will get to face off with their rivals. With some great matchups on the docket Thursday night, it is time to make some midseason picks. Hanover vs. Pembroke This has been a transition year of sorts for these Patriot League squads. Pembroke (2-1) has already matched…
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora emerged from the dugout to remove his starting pitcher with just one out in the third inning of Wednesday’s game two against the New York Yankees. It worked out for him as Justin Wilson worked his way out of a jam, keeping the score tied at two. After Wilson, Cora used five more pitchers from his bullpen. Justin Slaten threw 2/3 of an inning, Steven Matz threw one, Zack Kelly covered another and Garrett Whitlock threw 1 2/3. Payton Tolle recorded the final out of the eighth inning as well. While Wilson, Slaten, Matz,…
Following tonight’s loss to the Yankees, Red Sox manager Alex Cora announced that rookie Connelly Early would start Game 3 tomorrow night in New York. I’m not sure this even counts as news.What other option did the Red Sox have? It’s a cliche to say that the starting staff has been held together by duct tape, and in the case of the 2025 Red Sox, it’s not even true: that duct tape frayed and snapped weeks ago, splattering tendons all over the dugout floor with the sunflower seeds.And Alex Cora knew this more than anyone. His shocking, go-for-it-now call to…
NEW YORK – In two of his three regular season starts against the Yankees, Brayan Bello gave the Red Sox seven shutout innings. In Game 2 of the Wild Card series on Wednesday night, seven was a decidedly less magical number; it was how many pitchers Alex Cora used in the 4-3 loss. Bello was one out into the third inning when he saw Cora striding determinedly to the mound. The Red Sox right-hander had faced 11 men and thrown 28 pitches, 17 for strikes. The Yankees tagged him for two earned runs, in the form of a two-run homer…
NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. zipped all the way home from first base on Austin Wells’ tiebreaking single in the eighth inning, and the New York Yankees extended their season Wednesday night with a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 of their AL Wild Card Series.Unhappy he was left out of the starting lineup in the opener, Chisholm also made a couple of critical defensive plays at second base that helped the Yankees send the best-of-three playoff to a decisive Game 3 on Thursday night in the Bronx.In the latest chapter of baseball’s most storied rivalry,…
The Boston Red Sox lost game two of the Wild Card series to the New York Yankees in part due to sloppy baseball. In the bottom of the fifth inning with two outs and a runner on second base, Aaron Judge hit a soft fly ball to left field. Jarren Duran charged the ball and went into a dive, only for the ball to hit off his glove and drop in for a hit. With two outs, Trent Grisham was running on the play. With Duran on the ground, he couldn’t recover in time to attempt to throw the runner…
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NEW YORK — The Red Sox pushed Garrett Whitlock as far as he could go, but the usually stellar right-hander ran out of gas. With Game 2 of the AL Wild Card series tied 3-3, Whitlock entered in the bottom of the seventh and posted a scoreless frame against the heart of the Yankees order. But with his team needing three more outs to bridge the gap to the ninth, Whitlock returned for the eighth but came up one out short, walking Jazz Chisholm with two outs before allowing the go-ahead and eventual game-winning single to Austin Wells. The end…