Red Sox 4, Yankees 1

 

Things I didn't have on my June 2026 bingo card include the Red Sox winning three straight games against the Yankees in Fenway Park. And yet that's exactly what just happened today, with Boston beating New York, 4-1.

Yoshida homered in the first inning to get things going. Seigler followed suit with a homer of his own in the second. Contreras doubled the score in the third with a two-run double. Meanwhile, Bennett cruised for 6⅓ innings, giving up only three hits - unfortunately, one of them was a solo home run. The bullpen held the Yankees hitless the rest of the game, and Boston has now improbably clinched the win in the four-game home series.

Two things the Red Sox haven't done yet this year -  win four in a row, and sweep a team at home. They could accomplish both feats with a win tomorrow (7:20 pm).

Sonny Gray (9-1, 2.95), our winningest pitcher, takes the mound tomorrow. Gray was the winning pitcher in his last start against the Yankees, going 6⅓ innings in a 5-3 Boston win in the Bronx. He'll be opposed tomorrow by the Yanks' Carlos Rodón (4-2. 3.70), who hasn't yet faced the Sox this year, but is a career 5-6 versus Boston. Fun fact: Rodón had given up more home runs (13) to the Red Sox than any other MLB team he's faced.

Let's complete the sweep and show the world that the Yankees really and truly do suck. 

Red Sox 6, Yankees 1

 

The Yankees suck. Their pitcher, Will Warren, who gave up five runs on seven hits - including one HR - and no (zero) strikeouts, sucks. Paul Goldschmidt, who went 0-4 yesterday, sucks. Cody Bellinger also went 0-4, and also sucks. In fact, the whole fucking team went 3-for-30, and the whole fucking team sucks. And if the whole fucking team sucks, their manger, Aaron Boone, must suck as well.

Seriously, I hate those overrated, egomaniacal, pinstriped motherfuckers.

The Red Sox beat the Yankees, 6-1, yesterday. Payton Tolle, a real pitcher, went seven, one-hit innings, striking out seven. Willson Contreras homered in the third and hit an RBI single in the first, Connor Wong RBI'd twice, Mickey Gasper had an RBI, and even Tsung-Che Cheng, in his Red Sox debut, hit an RBI.

Can the Red Sox make it three straight? This afternoon (1:10 pm), they're putting rookie Jake Bennett (1-3, 3.71) on the mound to face the Yankees for the first time in his career. The Yankees will be starting veteran Gerrit Cole (2-2, 3.62), who hasn't pitched to the Sox since a 7-1 Boston blowout back on September 14, 2024. All seven runs were earned by Cole, who only got two Ks all game. Gerrit Cole sucks.

I don't care for the New York Yankees. I don't know what's going to happen to the Red Sox this season or in the future, but all I hope for is that they beat New York today in Fenway. 

Red Sox 6, Yankees 3

 

WHAT?!? Did NOT see that one coming! Last night, the disappointing Red Sox, playing on their accursed home field, beat the New York Yankees, 6-3.

The greatest comeback in sports history began last evening. We're going to the World Series, baby!

Young Connelly Early pitched well, striking out nine and giving up only one walk, but New Yor managed to get two runs off of him, an RBI single in the first and, after he settled in, a solo home run in the fourth.

But then in the fifth, that beautiful, beautiful fifth, it all came apart on little Shitler. With two on, Contreras brought Yoshida home with a single, Jarren Duran brought Rafaela home with a sac fly, and then Caleb Durbin hit a two-run homer that brought Contreras home. 4-2, Boston.  

The Yankees started going through relievers like my friend here popping antacids all day, but they still managed to load up the bases in the eighth and then brought home Boston's fifth run by hitting Nick Eaton, pinch hitting for Yoshida, with a pitch. With the bases still loaded, Rafaela brought home the Sox' sixth run with a single. 

Chapman once again made the ninth inning far more interesting than it needed to be, loading up the bases and allowing the potential game-tying batter to come to the plate before finally scoring the third and game-winning out.

The Sox wound up with four runs off little Shitler, and before Yankee apologists point out that none of them were earned, I'll concede your point - you're right, it's not so much that little Shitler sucks, it's that your whole motherfucking team sucks. Who the fuck commits four errors in one inning? And one of those errors was by little Shitler himself, so yeah, he sucks, too. 

And thus our comeback begins. The Sox (33-46) are still 14½ games back from the Yankees, and are still a miserable 13-25 at home, but we have three more games this weekend against those pinstriped sons of bitches. 

Tonight, Payton Tolle (3-5, 3.08) will face off against Will Warren (7-2, 3.45). Back on April 23rd, Tolle struck out 11 Yankee batters in six innings, walking only one and giving up one run on three hits. The Sox lost that game, partly because of Coulombe's four-run disaster in relief in the seventh and the Sox' pathetic batting (only four hits all game). The Sox haven't faced Warren this season, but over 14⅓ career innings, they've scored 15 runs off him in 20 hits, including three homers.

World Series, man, we're going to the World Series.

Rockies 8, Red Sox 6

 

The Sox just lost a series to the team with the worst won-loss record in baseball, but you know what?  Yesterday, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Venezuela 39 seconds after a 7.2-magnitude foreshock, killing at least 164 people and injuring 971 more. Boston's Ranger Suarez, Willson Contreras, Andruw Montaserio, Carlos Narvaez, and Wilyer Abreu are all from Venezuela. 

I'm gonna step back and take a break from ranting about the team's lack of success today. Contreras hit an RBI double in the second inning and Monteserio homered in the fifth. Suarez pitched six innings with nine K's before the bullpen blew up the game with five earned runs. 

I'm giving the team a pass today. There's bigger things in the world than grown men playing a game out in a field on summer days. 

I don't know whether any of the Red Sox players are personally affect by the tragedy in Venezuela or not, but I'm sure it's on all of the players' minds. Best wishes and consolations.  

Bring on the Yankees. What have we got to lose (other than four straight games)?

Red Sox 5, Rockies 2

 

The beleaguered Boston Red Sox, who despite their humble record (32-45) are one of the finest baseball teams playing the game today, defeated the Colorado Rockies, 5-2, last evening. There is joy in Beantown, quite arguably the greatest city in the United States and a beacon of hope, wisdom, and the arts for the entire world.

Sorry I said y'all sucked, but it really hurt losing game one of this series.

Sonny Gray pitched seven innings, striking out 11 Colorado batters and giving up only one run on six hits. Wilyer Abreu tripled in the first, scoring one run, and hit a solo homer in the fifth. Nate Eaton had two RBI hits, a single in the second and a double in the sixth, and Rafaela brought him home later that inning. In fact, every player on the team got at least one hit, except Jarren Duran, the Designated Hitter, and Andruw Monasterio, who was walked in the second and brought home with Eaton's RBI single.

The despicable New York Yankees (boo!) finally managed to get a win last night after three straight losses, so the Red Sox remain 14½ back. Boston's six games out of contention for a Wild Card spot, with seven teams now in the standings above them for the last slot.

With the Rocky Mountain series tied at one game each, the Sox again have a seemingly invincible advantage in this afternoon's (3:10 pm) pitching matchup. Ranger Suarez (3-3, 2.93) will lead Boston against Colorado's Kyle Freeland (1-7, 7.36). Suarez last faced the Rockies May 22 last year when he was with the Phillies, and struck out six over 6⅔ shutout innings. Freeland also struck out six the last time he faced the Red Sox, but gave up three runs in what turned out to be a 10-2 Boston blowout. 

The Sox can avenge Monday's embarrassing loss to Colorado by at least winning this series. They'll need all the wins they can get, because starting tomorrow they have a long, four-game weekend series in the dreaded Fenway Park, where they're 12-25, against the fucking Yankees (47-31).

Rockies 3, Red Sox 2

 

Oh, for fuck's sake! They couldn't beat the Rockies? The 30-48 Rockies, officially the worst team in all of baseball? The Dodgers (50-29), the Braves (48-29), the Brewers (47-29), and even the Marlins (40-39) have all swept the Rockies this season - the  Padres (40-37) swept a four-game series against them. Meanwhile, the 2026 Boston Red Sox (31-45, and dropping) are 0-1 against the Rockies so far this season.

But wait, it gets worse. The Sox went into the bottom of the ninth with a 2-0 lead, and put their ace closer, Aroldis Chapman, on the mound. Chapman didn't register a single out - he gave up three consecutive singles to load the bases, and then a game-winning, walk-off, three-run triple. Thanks, Chapman. You just lost the game for Boston to the Colorado Fucking Rockies. Chapman, you suck. 

I've had it! The Red Sox suck. They really do. Rafaela and Mayer both went 0-4 at bat in the game, so Rafaela and Mayer suck. Gasper, Wong, Duran, Durbin, Yoshida, Seigler, and Monasterio all went hitless last night, so Gasper, Wong, Duran, Durbin, Yoshida, Seigler, and Monasterio  all suck. Coach Chad Tracy sucks. Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow sucks big time. Owner John W. Henry, Chairman Tom Werner, and President/CEO Sam Kennedy all suck.

It doesn't stop there. Boston sucks. There, I said it! Boston sucks. Boston Harbor sucks (and smells funny), the Boston Common sucks, Beacon Hill sucks, the Back Bay sucks, and Harvard and MIT both suck. Boston College sucks, but everybody already knows that. Comm Ave sucks, Kenmore Square sucks, Fenway Park sucks, the Green Monster sucks, and even the Citgo sign sucks. 

Aerosmith, J. Geils, The Cars, and the Dropkick Murphys suck, and Mission of Burma are overrated. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck suck, Mark Wahlberg sucks, and even John Krasinski sucks. The ladies, too: Eliza Dushku sucks, Maura Tierney sucks, Allison Janney sucks, Connie Britton sucks, and even Amy Poehler sucks.

Dropping the letter "r" sucks and the Boston accent is wicked annoying.

This blog, Sweat Dissolves Water, which primarily covers Boston teams, sucks. You suck if you're reading this and I certainly suck for writing it. 

The Yankees lost last night, dropping their third straight game, and it goes without saying that the Yankees suck. 

Game two of the Colorado road series is tonight. Sonny Gray (8-1, 3.12) faces rookie Sean Sullivan (0-1, 10.29), making his third-ever MLB appearance. The Sox, who, by the way, suck, are improbably 1½-run favorites.

Mariners 3, Red Sox 1

 

I was hoping for a sweep in Seattle. A sweep would have been nice, a morale lift for a team in desperate need of a pick-me-up. But alas, a sweep was too much to ask for. This is the 2026 Boston Red Sox we're talking about, and this team don't do no sweeps.

Tolle gave up a first-inning home run, but Eaton homered in the third for the Sox to even up the game. But Tolle then allowed a pair of RBI singles in the fifth and sixth, and even our old friend Rob Refsnyder (.139) got a base hit, and that was all Seattle needed to win the game with Boston's anemic batting.

At least the Yankees lost yesterday, too. We missed an opportunity to move up one in the AL East standings, but at least we didn't fall even further back. For the record, the Sox are in last place, 14½ games out from first.

The road trip proceeds next to Colorado, where Boston has its best chance ever for a series sweep. The Rockies are 30-48 (.385), worst in all of baseball. Rookie Jake Bennett (1-3, 4.79) takes the mound for Boston, but the Rockies starter, Ryan Feltner (2-2), has an ERA of 5.05. So we have a chance. The Sox are even betting favorites to win by 1½ runs.  

Boston is .500 (19-19) on the road this year. If we can't sweep the woeful Rockies in Colorado, we can't sweep anyone.

Red Sox 5, Mariners 1

 

Young Connelly Early lives up to his potential. It took him an inning to settle in, and the two hits in the first gave Seattle a run, but after that he no-hit the Mariners for five innings, earning seven K's along the way. And then the bullpen kept the no-hitter (other than the first) going through the final three. 

Meanwhile,. Abreu hit a two-run homer in the fourth and scored on a wild pitch in the sixth. The Sox also scored two more runs on RBI singles by Durbin and Mayer in the sixth. 

The Mariners moved our old (2022-2025) friend Rob Refsnyder (.133), from first to fifth in the lineup, but he still went 0-3 at bat last night.

Two wins in a row, back to back victories. It's good to be playing anywhere but Fenway. 

More good news: the fucking Yankees finally lost a game, so the Sox pick up a game in the AL East standings. We're only 14½ back now, with 88 games left to play! 

That was sarcasm by the way.

But here we are now, out in the PNW - Cascadia - two up in a three-game road series with the potential to earn a sweep. We're putting Payton Tolle, our best starter (3-4, 2.93), on the mound to face the Mariners for the first time in his career. He'll be opposed by Seattle's Logan Gilbert (5-4, 3.43), who's a career 0-2 against Boston. The last time Gilbert pitched to the Sox, he struck out an impressive 10 batters over five innings, but the now-injured Roman Anthony also got his career-first MLB home run off him in a 2-0 Boston win. 

Past results are no indicator of future performance, so so they say, but really, it's all we've got to go on.

Red Sox 6, Mariners 2

 

The Boston Red Sox break a four-game losing streak with a win in Seattle over the AL West-leading Mariners. 

Celeb Durbin homered in the second inning, a solo shot into deep left center. After what was starting to look like a 1-0 game, the Sox scored four runs in the seventh inning on a wild pitch, an RBI single, and a sac fly. Mayer added another RBI in the ninth, bringing Durbin home from second.

Suarez one-hit the Mariners through 6⅔ innings, striking out five along the way. The bullpen also kept Seattle to only one hit through 2⅓ innings - unfortunately, that one hit was a two-run homer off Tommy Kahnle in the bottom of the ninth.

Our old friend, Rob Refsnyder (.137), who played for the Red Sox from 2022-2025, went 0-4 last night in the Mariners' lead-off position, with one strike out. 

Doesn't mean shit, though - the Yankees won last night and the Sox remain 15½ back in the AL East.

Young Connelly Early (5-5, 3.81) takes the mound tonight in his first start against the Mariners. Seattle will counter with Emerson Hancock (5-3, 3.28), who struck out seven Boston batters while giving up two runs on five hits in an April 23, 2025 game in Fenway. 

Blue Jays 4, Red Sox 3

 

A sweep. The Red Sox just got swept on their home field by a sub-.500 team.

This loss was made all the more infuriating because the Sox tied the game up in the bottom of the eighth with a pair of solo homers by Kiner-Falefa and Durbin. But then Chapman uncharacteristically gave up a run in the top of the ninth and then, in the bottom of the inning, the Sox flied, grounded, and popped out. Three up and three down, and the fourth straight loss at Fenway, where they're now 12-25.   

Time to hit the road. The Sox leave Boston for a road trip to Seattle (38-37) and then to the woeful Colorado Rockies (28-47).  Teams they statistically have a chance to beat, especially on the road, where they're at last close to .500 (17-18). But who knows in this accursed season? 

So the question that Red Sox fans across this great nation are now asking themselves: when you cut your wrists, is it better to slice horizontally across the arm to sever more arteries, or vertically along the arm for a longer open cut? 

Blue Jays 3, Red Sox 0

 

Okay, we're not going to sweep this home series, I can handle that, but now the Jays went and clinched the series win, winning game two, 3-0. Are we about to get swept at home?

At this point, I usually go over the game highlights, but there were none yesterday. The Sox are 15½ games back from first place in the AL East and 5½ games back from qualifying for a Wild Card spot, with five other teams in the playoff standings ahead of them.

Boston pins its hopes to avoid a sweep on Sonny Gray (8-1, 3.03) this afternoon (1:35). But it doesn't matter how well Gray pitches if the Red Sox batters can't manage any runs. All week, they've gotten only one run, a Jarren Duran solo homer in the eighth inning on Tuesday. Gray could go nine innings and hold the Jays to only one run, and Boston could still lose the game.

Meanwhile, in the Pribilof Islands, the harbormaster on St. Paul has finally put the docks in the water, meaning that the Yeva can soon be launched and Capt. Ella Hibbert can re-start her circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean and give us some distraction from this wretched Red Sox season.     

Blue Jays 6, Red Sox 1

 

Well, we're not going to get a home sweep in this series either . . .