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.