Orioles 8, Red Sox 2

 

Of course, this year's Red Sox team can't win a home series against the fourth-place Orioles. Of course, Brayan Bello, after finally being allowed to start a first inning again, gives up six runs in that first. Of course, the Boston batters get only seven hits all game and go scoreless until Contreras finally wakes the fuck up and scores an RBI in the sixth and hits a meaningless solo homer in the 9th.

Of course. of course, of course. The 2026 Boston Red Sox really do suck. After the game, Bello was sent down to Triple A until he remembers how to throw strikes.

The Red Sox are .426 (26-35) but still not as bad as the Tigers, Royals, and Angels, or the Giants and Rockies over in the National League, and are 11 games out of first place and about to start one of the toughest weeks in their schedule, starting tonight in the Bronx.

Sonny Gray (6-1, 3.06) will start for the Sox. Gray missed his start in the last series against the Yankees, but is a career 2-2 against New York. Last August, as a Cardinal, he gave up six runs while striking out seven in a game against New York in Sr. Louis. He'll be pitching against the Yanks' Ryan Weathers (3-2, 3.52), who in 6½ years in MLB has faced virtually every team in MLB at least once before except for Boston. This will be his first time facing the Sox, as a starter or in relief.

Doesn't matter. The Sox will lose and will get swept in New York, and then fly down to Tampa Bay to get swept by the Rays. Only 92 more days until the start of the Georgia Bulldogs football schedule.