TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Lowe hit his 30th home run of the season and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 Sunday night to avoid a series sweep.The Rays (76-80) snapped an eight-game losing streak against Boston.Despite the loss, the Red Sox (85-71) maintained their one-game lead in the race for the AL’s second wild card as Cleveland and Houston also lost Sunday.The Rays finished with a 41-40 home record at Steinbrenner Field, the spring training home of the Yankees, after Tropicana Field was damaged by Hurricane Milton in October. Tampa Bay, which closes the season with six…
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Connelly Early took the mound for his first start against a team not named the Athletics on Sunday. The Boston Red Sox rookie had been excellent in his first two starts, allowing just one earned run in 10 1/3 innings. He faced adversity early in his start against Tampa. Chandler Simpson led off the game with a single, and the lefty appeared to be affected by his presence on the bases. He walked each of the next two hitters to load the bases as he monitored the speedsters’ leads. Early then struck out Brandon Lowe to ease some of the…
This offense is still killing me.I wrote yesterday about the tropes of the 2011 season and how it ended and while this series in general was helpful, a win on Sunday night would have been. No dice on that one. Even with a Guardians loss to shrink the magic number to five, early and eager opportunities did this Red Sox team in against the Rays.Bases loaded, top of the first, Joe Boyle looking like a deer in the headlights on the bump, the perfect opportunity to do damage early. Nathaniel Lowe strikes out. Boyle regains control and shuts down the…
FOXBORO – By Monday afternoon, Mike Vrabel’s assistants will have parsed through every play. They will have mined the film of Sunday’s loss, hunting for every insight and competitive edge; sacrificing sleep and sanity along the way, all in the pursuit of victory. Let’s save them some time. The truth of that tape is this: the Patriots beat themselves. Again. Five turnovers, including two on the doorstep of the end zone. Six first-half penalties, including two that resuscitated Steelers touchdown drives. And another home loss drenched in regret. Granted, this is a young team. A new team. But everybody inside…
It’s never a good idea to waste a bases-loaded opportunity. The Red Sox are painfully aware of that, as they entered Sunday’s series finale in Tampa hitting .143 (6 for 42) in such situations over their last 38 games – including 0 for 2 in Friday’s series opener – with just one extra base hit, one walk, two hit-by-pitches, and three sacrifice flies. (A far cry from their .586 average (17 for 29) in bases-loaded situations in the previous 54 games.) Tack on another left-’em-loaded in Sunday’s first inning. And another in the fifth. In total, the Red Sox left…
The Boston Red Sox still haven’t secured their spot in the postseason, but they’re making moves with an eye toward playoff baseball… Garrett Crochet and Brayan Bello have switched spots in the rotation, according to MLB.com’s Ian Brown. Crochet and Bello will pitch in that order on Wednesday and Thursday against the Toronto Blue Jays, giving the former an extra day of rest before a potential Game 1 of the 2025 American League Wild Card Series. Crochet has been a markedly different pitcher when starting on four days rest (10 G, 60 1/3 IP, 3.58 ERA, 76 K, 13 BB)…
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One thing that popped for the Bruins in their preseason opener at the Garden was their sharp new uniforms that harken back to the 1980s vintage. But the unis topped a very short list of positives for the B’s in their 5-2 loss to a Washington Capitals lineup that was lighter on projected NHLers than the Black-and-Gold side. Considering he’s just laying the foundation for how he wants the team to play, new coach Marco Sturm wasn’t going to overreact to the result. “Listen, do we like the ending? No, of course not. But having been there a lot of…
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers threw a go-ahead 17-yard touchdown pass to Calvin Austin III with 2:16 left, and the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the New England Patriots 21-14 on Sunday.Rodgers passed for 139 yards and two touchdowns, Kenneth Gainwell ran for a 1-yard TD and the Steelers’ defense forced five turnovers to help Pittsburgh (2-1) win at New England for the first time since 2008. The Steelers had lost four since then in Foxborough, including the AFC championship game in the 2016 season.The Patriots (1-2) were driving with a chance to tie it and had fourth-and-1 at the Pittsburgh…
DK Metcalf didn’t want to be traded to the New England Patriots, even though the organization was willing to pay him what he desired. Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer joined Patriots Pregame Live on Sunday afternoon before the Week 3 matchup between the Patriots and Metcalf’s Steelers. Breer shared intel dating back to Metcalf’s final days with the Seahawks and what led to the mid-March trade that sent the star wide receiver from Seattle to Pittsburgh. “Well, let’s roll it back all the way to January when DK Metcalf first asked for a trade from Seattle,” said Breer, noting the Houston…