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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2022 14:50:17 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 16m Wacha still unsure if he will start tomorrow.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2022 14:51:58 GMT -5
Alex Speier @alexspeier · 6m Sale confirmed he’s paid for the damages on Worcester. Said he acted like an “idiot” and “7-year-old.” Said he thought he was doing it out of the public eye.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2022 16:47:10 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 1h Chris Sale is likely to make his 2022 debut for the Red Sox on Tuesday night at Tropicana Field. Top prospect Brayan Bello likely to get another start on Monday night against the Rays. Wacha isn't ready to pitch Friday night. Red Sox are TBD starters for Friday and Saturday.
Tyler Danish is going on the injured list. No corresponding move yet.
“He’ll pitch Tuesday. Somewhere, he’ll pitch Tuesday, but there’s a good chance he’ll pitch with us.” -- Alex Cora, who was grinning as he spoke. Translation: Sale definitely pitching for Red Sox next time out.
Some more injury updates for the Red Sox. Kiké will start his Minor League rehab tomorrow for Worcester. Also, Garrett Whitlock will throw 1-2 innings Friday for Worcester. Nathan Eovaldi to pitch Sunday at Worcester, three innings. Red Sox are about to get healthier.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2022 16:49:59 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 1h Wacha didn’t bounce back as hoped. Not starting Sat. Chance he goes on the IL. Starter TBA … Danish goes on IL. No corresponding move yet. … Bello starting Monday … Hernández, Whitlock and Eovaldi starting rehab assignments this weekend … Sale starting Tue. likely MLB.🦿📺
#RedSox rotation for the #Yankees series:
Tonight: Winckowski
Friday: TBA. Likely Seabold
Saturday: TBA. Likely Crawford as starter or following an opener.
Sunday: Pivetta.
They would need a roster move to get Seabold back. Wacha to IL perhaps.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2022 16:54:38 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 1h Alex Cora pregame #RedSox notes: - Wacha (dead arm) hasn't bounced back, doubtful to start Friday - 'Good chance' Sale pitches Tuesday in Tampa - Bello starts Monday in Tampa - Danish (forearm soreness) going to the IL - Hernandez, Whitlock both to Triple-A Worcester on Friday More Cora #RedSox pregame notes: - Eovaldi will pitch Sunday at Triple-A Worcester - 'No big deal' regarding the Sale outburst on Wednesday - '(Sale) was off mechanically. He was rushing.' - Yankees are 'having a great season -- a *great* season'
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2022 17:52:43 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 45m Red Sox move: RHP Tyler Danish on the 15-day IL with a right forearm strain. RHP Michael Feliz selected from Triple-A Worcester.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2022 2:10:15 GMT -5
Red Sox waste Rafael Devers’ two home runs, fall to Yankees, 6-5 Updated: Jul. 07, 2022, 10:56 p.m. | Published: Jul. 07, 2022, 10:11 p.m.
By Matt Vautour | mvautour@masslive.com
BOSTON — One run on the scoreboard turned into 15 games in the American League East standings.
Even without Aaron Judge, the Yankees jumped ahead and took the first of the four-game series against the Red Sox, 6-5, Thursday at Fenway Park to widen their American League East lead.
The Boston lineup, which looked anemic without Rafael Devers the last two nights, scored five runs, all on his home runs, and turned what looked like a potential early blowout into a close game. But the Red Sox couldn’t completely close the gap and dropped their third straight to fall out of second place in the American League East.
After neither team scored in the first two innings, Joey Gallo drew a walk leading off the Yankees’ third and moved to second D.J. LeMahieu’s ground out. Gleyber Torres singled and stole second before Giancarlo Stanton walked to load the bases.
Josh Donaldson’s grand slam was clearly bleacher-bound from the moment it jumped off his bat giving the Yankees a quick 4-0 lead. The blast started a “Let’s Go Yankees” chant from the fans of red chowder that made the trip north.
They were still chanting it when Aaron Hicks roped the first pitch he saw into the bullpen to stake Gerrit Cole to a 5-0 lead.
In his first game back after two days off to rest an injury, Devers belted a low Cole slider into the bullpen to cut Boston’s deficit to 5-2.
Winckowski appeared to have worked around Aaron Hicks’ two-out triple when Jose Trevino hit a moonshot pop fly on the infield. But Franchy Cordero misplayed play it. As the ball landed on the grass, Trevino scooted into the second while Cordero corkscrewed himself into the ground as Hicks trotted home with a 6-2 lead.
Devers, who entered the game with four career home runs off Cole added his sixth in the bottom of the fifth. With Cordero and Kevin Plawecki aboard, he clubbed a 1-0 change up, 425 feet into the center-field triangle to cut the Boston deficit to 6-5.
Matt Strahm, John Schreiber, Ryan Brasier — who was helped by a great diving stop by Trevor Story — and Austin Davis — combined for four scoreless innings in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth.
But the Yankees pen matched them zero for zero to send the sellout crowd at Fenway home disappointed.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2022 2:11:52 GMT -5
With Michael Wacha hurt, Boston Red Sox might turn to rookies Connor Seabold, Kutter Crawford to start against Yankees Updated: Jul. 07, 2022, 10:53 p.m. | Published: Jul. 07, 2022, 9:21 p.m.
By Chris Cotillo | ccotillo@MassLive.com
BOSTON -- The Red Sox might feature three rookie starters in four games against the Yankees this weekend.
Veteran righty Michael Wacha, who was scratched from his Monday start due to what manager Alex Cora called “heavy arm,” was supposed to pitch Friday. But after throwing a bullpen Wednesday, he didn’t feel right when he got to the ballpark Thursday. He told the team that he probably wouldn’t be ready to pitch Friday night. So the Red Sox are considering other options.
“Michael hasn’t bounced back the way we expected so there’s a good chance we’ll go somewhere else,” Cora said. “We’re still debating the IL thing. We’ll know more by the end of the day.”
Connor Seabold is the most logical option to start Friday. He’d be on regular rest after pitching Sunday against the Cubs. The problem is that Seabold is not with the Red Sox, and instead, at Triple-A. Boston would need to make a roster move to add him, and MLB rules dictate that it would need to be a direct injury replacement for him to come back within 10 days of being optioned. All signs point to Wacha being placed on the injured list after the Red Sox chose to add reliever Michael Feliz, and not Seabold, to their roster before Thursday’s game. (UPDATE: Cora said after Thursday’s game that Wacha will likely be placed on the IL on Friday).
Cora acknowledged that Kutter Crawford is an option for Saturday, either as the starter or a “bulk” reliever in relief of an opener. Using him as a bulk guy worked well Monday, when he tossed 5 ⅓ scoreless innings against the Rays. The Sox haven’t announced their plans yet.
“Kutter’s here. The way the schedule goes, right, he’s Saturday,” Cora said. “We’ll use him somehow. We can’t announce how we’re going to do it.” Enter your email address here to receive the Fenway Rundown email newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday.
As of now, the Red Sox have two “TBDs” penciled into their rotation. But if Seabold and Crawford follow Thursday starter Josh Winckowski, it will be three straight rookies against the best team in baseball. Add in Brayan Bello, who threw Wednesday night, and the Sox will have started four rookies in a row. That’s their lot in life with Wacha sidelined and a handful of other rotation options (Nate Eovaldi, Chris Sale, Garrett Whitlock and James Paxton) on the injured list. Bello will pitch again Monday at Tropicana Field with Sale’s return expected to be Tuesday.
“We’ve got to keep rolling,” Cora said. “We’ve got some kids that have to step up. It’s part of the equation. Last year, I don’t want to say we got lucky but you don’t see that often, right? They stayed healthy throughout the season. We’ve just got to keep maneuvering and jabbing and moving around and try to win games somehow, some way.”
Even if Wacha does hit the IL, the Red Sox are confident the injury is nothing serious. He’d likely just miss the minimum 15 days (or 12, if they backdate his stint).
“He hasn’t been able to bounce back from his bullpens or playing catch,” Cora said. “Nothing structural. We actually tested him, an MRI and all that. Everything looks clean. It’s just, right now, he hasn’t been able to bounce back.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2022 2:15:09 GMT -5
Gerrit Cole ‘open to suggestions’ on how to get Rafael Devers out after Red Sox slugger hits 2 more home runs vs. Yankees ace Published: Jul. 07, 2022, 11:32 p.m.
By Matt Vautour | mvautour@masslive.com
BOSTON — Gerrit Cole earned his eighth win of the season and against eight of the nine Red Sox hitters, he was as good as usual in the Yankees’ 6-5 win over the Red Sox, Thursday at Fenway Park.
But Rafael Devers continues to befuddle the New York ace.
Devers, who missed the last two games with an injury, walked in the first, hit a two-run home run in the third inning and a three-run shot in the fifth off of Cole. Both were no-doubters when they left that bat as Devers amassed 859 feet of home runs.
The first one came on a low slider out of the strike zone that Devers reached down and yanked over the bullpens in right. The second caught more of the plate and Devers admired it as it headed to the triangle in center field.
“I’m open for suggestions,” Cole said after the game. “He has the ability to ride the ball out at the bottom of the zone and catch up to my fastball. He’s proven that. Both pitches were pretty well executed. ... It’s pretty wild he’s been able to hit every (one) there hasn’t been a miss-hit. Roll over one time. Line out one time. You’re supposed to fail seven out of 10 times in this gig. I don’t know what the deal is. We’ll just have to (pauses). We’ll just have to (shorter pause) keep at it.”
Cole shook his head after the second.
“I was like WTF man,” Cole said. “But it didn’t beat us.”
They were Devers’ fifth and sixth career home runs off of Cole. He now has three in two games this season. Devers had a two-run home run off of him in the first inning on opening day. It was the second pitch Devers faced in 2022.
Alex Cora hoped Thursday’s game would help Devers’ candidacy to start the All-Star game.
“He’s that good a player. Hopefully, he’ll start in Dodger Stadium in a few weeks. He doesn’t get caught up in the whole thing. He’s just playing baseball,” Cora said. “He’s a special player, a special hitter.”
Devers, who has 18 home runs this season, said his approach against Cole isn’t different than any other pitcher.
“I just try to look for my pitch and do damage through the zone. That’s it. Nothing special,” Devers said and later added. “Like any other pitcher I’m just trying to do damage when the pitch is in the zone.”
His six home runs are the most by any player against Cole in his career, breaking a tie with Joey Gallo, Matt Carpenter and Lucas Duda, who each have four. None of them are likely to catch up with Devers soon. Gallo and Carpenter are both on the Yankees now and Duda is out of baseball.
“That guy is just unreal. To miss a couple games and then to hit two bombs off a guy like Gerrit Cole, that’s pretty crazy,” Red Sox starter Josh Winckowski said. “He’s one of the best hitters in the game for a reason.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2022 2:27:55 GMT -5
Devers dominant when facing Yankees' ace Raffy homers twice, now has 6 vs. Cole: 'I just see him as a normal pitcher' 1:46 AM ADT Ian Browne
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne
BOSTON -- Rafael Devers took two nights off with an ailing back and right hamstring, but he came back just in time to destroy Yankees ace Gerrit Cole once again.
The only regret for Boston’s star slugger is that his monster performance (two homers, five RBIs) came in a 6-5 loss to the Yankees in Thursday night’s opener of a four-game series at Fenway Park.
That’s right: The score was essentially Yankees 6, Devers 5.
With the Red Sox down 5-0 in the third inning, Devers took it upon himself to create another tense rivalry matchup that went down to the wire.
“It was a good night individually, but I cannot feel happy about tonight because we lost, and that’s something that goes beyond everything else,” Devers said. “This is a team sport, and we lost and I feel bad about tonight.”
The team-first attitude from the most impactful hitter on the Red Sox is admirable, but there isn’t anything Devers could really feel bad about.
In fact, he can’t help but feel good when he faces Cole, who signed a $324 million contract to come to the Yankees prior to the 2020 season.
When the power-hitting Devers faces the power-pitching Cole, Devers is the one who is money.
In 23 career at-bats and 25 plate appearances against Cole, Devers has six homers. No other player has hit more than four homers off him.
It is dominance like that against a fellow star that could land Devers the starting nod at third base for the American League when the lineups for both leagues are announced on Friday. Voting goes until 2 p.m. ET. Devers and Cleveland’s José Ramírez are the two AL finalists at the hot corner.
“I want to thank all the fans who have voted for me, and I appreciate their help and I’m happy for that,” Devers said.
If Devers doesn’t get in as a starter, he is a lock to get in as a reserve, and it’s fairly safe to guess that Cole gave him a vote.
At this point, Cole is flummoxed at how to keep Devers in the ballpark.
“I'm open for suggestions, because you're all watching the game too,” Cole said. “It's pretty wild. He just been able to hit everything. There just hasn't been a mishit. Roll over one time. Line out one time. You’re so supposed to fail seven out of 10 times in this game. I don't know what the deal is. We'll just have to keep at it, man.”
It’s not like Devers is just crushing misfires from Cole.
His two-run shot to right in the third was on a pitch that was out of the strike zone, low and on the inner half. Devers smoked the 89.6 mph slider at an exit velocity of 110.6 mph and a Statcast-projected distance of 434 feet.
Two innings later, with the Yankees up 6-2, Devers mauled one into the bleachers in center for a three-run shot, sending a packed house of 36,876 at Fenway Park into a frenzy. That offering, a 1-0 changeup, was also a ball, low and on the outer half of the plate. The 19th homer of the season for Devers left his bat at 107.4 mph and soared a projected distance of 425 feet.
By the time Devers took his next at-bat, Cole was out of the game and lefty Wandy Peralta induced a grounder to short to lead off the eighth.
If there is some key to the success Devers has against Cole, he’s not about to divulge it.
“Yeah, nothing special, I just see him as a normal pitcher,” Devers said. “I’m just trying to look for my pitch and try to do damage in the zone.”
It’s not as if Cole is the only Yankees pitcher Devers can tee off against. Devers has 16 career homers against Boston’s archrival. The only Red Sox player to hit more against the Yankees by age 25 or younger? A guy named Ted Williams, who had 20. Babe Ruth is third, with 12.
“He’s that good,” said Red Sox manager Alex Cora. “Raffy is a good player. Hopefully he’ll be starting at Dodger Stadium in a few weeks. The stage, he doesn’t get caught up in the whole thing. He enjoys playing baseball and helping his team win. He’s a special player and special hitter.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2022 2:29:20 GMT -5
Injuries & Moves: Sale likely to debut Tuesday at Trop 12:45 AM ADT
LATEST NEWS
July 7: LHP Chris Sale likely to return Tuesday at Trop Red Sox manager Alex Cora said Sale is likely to make his 2022 season debut on Tuesday night at Tropicana Field for the second game of a four-game series against the Rays. Despite walking five batters over 3 2/3 innings in his Minor League rehab assignment for Triple-A Worcester on Wednesday, Sale said he is ready to pitch for the Red Sox. The lefty suffered a stress fracture in his right rib cage in February. Even though Sale is on track to return, the Sox are expected to have top pitching prospect Brayan Bello make another start in Monday's series opener at Tropicana Field. -- Ian Browne
July 7: OF Kiké Hernández, RHP Garrett Whitlock rehabbing at Worcester Two days after Chris Sale started in Worcester, the fans at Polar Park get to see two other prominent members of the big league club on Friday. Hernández, who hasn't played for the Red Sox since June 7 due to a right hip flexor strain, is likely to play two or three games at Triple-A. Whitlock will pitch one to two innings of relief for the WooSox on Friday. It is unclear how many games his rehab will be. In addition, righty Nathan Eovaldi (low back inflammation) will make a three-inning start at Worcester on Sunday. -- Ian Browne
July 7: RHP Michael Wacha won't pitch Friday The Red Sox had hoped Wacha would be able to start Friday night against the Yankees after he was scratched July 4 due to a "dead arm." But Wacha likely needs a stint on the 15-day IL, manager Alex Cora said, as Boston's rotation continues to be depleted by injuries. The Red Sox announced they will call up right-hander Connor Seabold from Triple-A to start Friday.
“[Wacha] hasn’t been able to bounce back from bullpens or playing catch," said Cora. "Nothing structural. We actually tested him. He had an MRI and all that, and everything looks clean. Right now, just hasn’t been able to bounce back.” -- Ian Browne
July 7: RHP Tyler Danish placed on 15-day injured list (right forearm strain); RHP Michael Feliz selected to roster The 27-year-old Danish allowed one run in two innings on Wednesday, but he showed up to the park sore on Thursday, necessitating the move. It could be a short stint on the roster for Feliz because the Red Sox likely need to call up a pitcher to start on Friday night. -- Ian Browne
RHP Matt Barnes (right shoulder inflammation) Expected return: Late July/Early August Barnes has progressed to live batting practice in Fort Myers, Fla. Manager Alex Cora thinks the righty can open a Minor League rehab assignment with a couple of appearances in the Florida Complex League the week of July 11. -- Ian Browne (Last updated: July 7)
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2022 2:31:58 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 6h Jose Trevino pops it up and Franchy Cordero can't catch it. That's just a terrible play.
It's 6-2 Yankees in the 5th. Trevino is credited with a double and an RBI on a ball that went 100 feet up and 50 feet out. #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2022 2:32:37 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 5h A golden sombrero for Jarren Duran tonight.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2022 2:34:08 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 5h
#RedSox are 45-38. The Yankees scored the winning run on an infield pop that dropped for an RBI double.
Alex Cora said postgame Michael Wacha is 'most likely' going on the IL. #RedSox
#RedSox announce Connor Seabold will start Friday's game against the Yankees.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2022 2:36:39 GMT -5
Julian McWilliams @byjulianmack · 5h Red Sox are now 9-19 against divisional opponents this year.
Franchy Cordero said he looked to take a glance at where his infielders were and lost sight of where the ball was, causing him to miss it.
Josh Winckowski on first time facing the Yankees: "I think Rizzo and Judge lengthen their lineup. I'm not gonna say the guys they had in there today are bad, by any means, but it felt like another big league lineup, to be honest."
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