The Sox are, officially, out of the playoff chase.
The 2024 Red Sox were eliminated from postseason contention Wednesday night when they lost to the Blue Jays 6-1 and the Tigers and Royals both won, ending another middling season for Boston even as the arrow plainly points up, albeit slightly, for 2025 and beyond.
The details scarcely matter on a night like tonight — the Jays scored two runs off Richard Fitts in both the fourth and fifth, with the Sox clawing one back in the sixth against starter Kevin Gausman before loading the bases but not capitalizing, leaving it 4-1. A home run by Jonathan Clase, his first ever, in the seventh, made it 6-1, and that’s how it ended, alongside our dreams of a miracle title run.
There will be plenty of post mortems (posts mortem?) in the days to come, but right now, whatever, it’s just us and our thoughts and feelings. It sucks!