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We Say Goodbye to the Red Sox and Hello to the Offseason Unknowns

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Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The Red Sox season — and Joe Castiglione’s career — is over. You can’t force the summer. You can try to, and I always do. I uncover the patio furniture on the first sunny weekend of March, even though I should know that more snow flurries are on the way. I get my first ice cream cone sometime in April, and end up eating … [Read more...] about We Say Goodbye to the Red Sox and Hello to the Offseason Unknowns

Game 162: Red Sox vs. Rays

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Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images We can turn our backs from the 2024 season past this afternoon. Well, this is it. The end to an incredibly large roller coaster of a season for the 2024 Boston Red Sox. While the door of the season closes, a ton of doors fly right open. Kenley Jansen suddenly isn’t with the team, which ticked off multiple players. Tyler O’Neill’s … [Read more...] about Game 162: Red Sox vs. Rays

Red Sox 2, Rays 7: A Deep Kut

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Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Kutter Crawford ends the season on a dud as the Sox fall. Kutter Crawford began the season fighting for an All-Star nod. He ends it as someone who will need to fight for a rotation spot in 2025. Kutter gave up yet another homer — his league-leading 34th — though in today’s case the walks were the bigger issue, as he issued four free … [Read more...] about Red Sox 2, Rays 7: A Deep Kut

Game 162: Rays at Red Sox On The Last Saturday

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Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Kutter takes the hill for the final time. Well, it’s a goddamn beautiful early Fall day here in New England and the Red Sox are playing a baseball game. That’s a good thing, no matter what happened in the previous 160 of these. Go Kutter. Go Sox. Yellow & Blue Saturday! pic.twitter.com/iF57iGRWXV— Red Sox … [Read more...] about Game 162: Rays at Red Sox On The Last Saturday

Rays 2, Red Sox 1: Pivetta’s Strong Start Not Enough to Overcome The .500 Magnet

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Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Red Sox are really good at playing mediocre baseball. For the 24th time this season, the Red Sox finished a game with a .500 record. They have now hit the mark at all of the following checkpoints: 1-1 2-2 7-7 9-9 10-10 19-19 22-22 24-24 26-26 27-27 28-28 29-29 30-30 31-31 32-32 33-33 34-34 35-35 70-70 74-74 75-75 76-76 … [Read more...] about Rays 2, Red Sox 1: Pivetta’s Strong Start Not Enough to Overcome The .500 Magnet

Game 160: Rays at Red Sox, Bradley vs. Pivetta

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Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images It’s the last Friday night Fenway of the season. And so, the final series of another fruitless year is upon us. Nick Pivetta will take the mound tonight in what could be his final start in a Red Sox uniform. If so, his most memorable innings here came against this very Rays team in October of 2021, when he helped pitch the Sox to … [Read more...] about Game 160: Rays at Red Sox, Bradley vs. Pivetta

Chess Pieces Will Start To Move; Will Triston Casas Be One of Them?

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Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images The need for pitching and (right-handed) hitting may require some tough decisions. So the Red Sox are officially eliminated at last from postseason contention. Sigh. I guess I no longer need to feel guilty for looking ahead to the off-season, so let’s do that. With the excitement generated by this team in the first half of the … [Read more...] about Chess Pieces Will Start To Move; Will Triston Casas Be One of Them?

OTM Open Thread 9/27-9/29: The Final Weekend

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Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Three games left TGIF. The Boston Red Sox are 80-79. They are in third place in the AL East. The Tampa Bay Rays are 78-81, fourth place in the AL East. It’s a battle for third place. Throwback to better times: Red Sox players celebrate clinching the AL Wild Card, September 27, 2004. Man, where the HELL did … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 9/27-9/29: The Final Weekend