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Game 102: Red Sox at Phillies lineups and notes
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'It's nice to go through a week of prep, the five days or whatever, and not feel like I should just retire,' Buehler said after facing Tampa Bay. 'I don't think I'm going to retire anytime soon, but you get into some really dark places and that's what happens.' Advertisement The Phillies will counter with Zack Wheeler, who is in the Cy Young race after a solid first half. In his final start before the All-Star break, he allowed four runs on six hits in six innings of a 5-4 loss to the Padres on July 12. Advertisement Here is a preview Lineups RED SOX (54-47): TBA Pitching: RHP Walker Buehler (6-6, 6.12 ERA) PHILLIES (56-43): TBA Pitching: RHP Zack Wheeler (9-3, 2.36 ERA) Time: 6:45 p.m. TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7 Red Sox vs. Wheeler: Alex Bregman 1-6, Jarren Duran 2-6, Ceddanne Rafaela 0-2, Rob Refsnyder 0-2, Trevor Story 2-5, Connor Wong 1-5, Masataka Yoshida 1-5 Phillies vs. Buehler: Nick Castellanos 2-9, Bryce Harper 2-3, Brandon Marsh 1-1, J.T. Realmuto 2-12, Kyle Schwarber 2-8, Edmundo Sosa 1-2, Bryson Stott 2-2, Trea Turner 0-8 Stat of the day: The Red Sox are 9-3 so far in a stretch of 18 of the 22 games from June 30-July 27 against National League opponents. Notes: The Red Sox are 16-16 in series openers. They are Sox are 8-4 in their last 12 series since June 6. … Buehler is 1-1 with a 6.48 ERA in four appearances (three starts) against Phillies. … With Sunday's win, the Red Sox improved to 5-31 when trailing after six innings, and 17-33 when the opponent scores first. … The Red Sox are 18-12 against the National League. … Wheeler has made three starts against the Red Sox, going 2-1 with a 2.75 ERA. Follow Andrew Mahoney
Boston Globe
11-07-2025
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Red Sox' Walker Buehler encouraged by improvement after some really shaky starts
After a dreadful 11.07 ERA in June that left Buehler questioning his place on the team and even in the sport, Thursday's showing marked his second consecutive solid start following his five inning, two-run outing against the Nationals last Saturday. Advertisement 'Obviously, [with] the way the year has gone, this is a good start for me,' Buehler said. 'I got through some little sticky spots and some spots where I lost the delivery for a second. And since we kind of figured out what exactly I'm trying to fix, I think things have started improving.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The Rays still got hard contact off Buehler and launched two well-struck home runs, but Buehler did not let the damage spiral into a blow-up inning ― an issue that plagued him in June. 'All along, the stuff has been there,' said manager Alex Cora. 'We've been close, but we haven't finished it, and today, he did a good job against a good baseball team and gave us more than enough.' Advertisement In the bigger picture, Buehler's 6.12 ERA at the All-Star break ― the fifth worst in the league among pitchers with at least 70 innings ― was not what anyone had in mind when the Sox signed him to a one year, $21.05 million contract in the offseason. At the time Buehler hit the injured list on May 2 with bursitis in his right shoulder, he had won his past three starts and allowed just seven earned runs over his last 24⅓ innings. Upon returning nearly a month later, Buehler struggled mightily. In his first eight starts, he posted a 8.64 ERA, a 1.95 WHIP, and averaged just over four innings per outing. Buehler was particularly down on himself after a four-run, four-inning effort against the Blue Jays on June 29, calling his performance 'embarrassing' and conceding that 'I think I'm fighting for my spot in the game.' And while neither of the two starts since have been lights-out, the solid showings have been critical steps towards rebuilding Buehler's confidence. 'It's nice to go through a week of prep, the five days or whatever, and not feel like I should just retire,' Buehler said. 'I don't think I'm going to retire anytime soon, but you get into some really dark places and that's what happens.' Buehler's primary mechanical tweak has been raising his arm slot angle several degrees, aiming to rediscover where it was during his peak years with the Dodgers. He feels he is continuing to make progress with the adjustment, though it's still a work in progress. 'It's just one of those things you have to feel it a lot of times and trust it,' Buehler said. 'Even today, probably 70 percent of the throws were more like I want them. And surviving the other 30 percent I think, is the name of the game. But in Anaheim [on June 23, when he gave up five runs], I probably made three throws that I like. So we're kind of improving rapidly.' Advertisement In Buehler's mind, the shoulder injury played a role in why his arm slot became out of whack again over the past two months. 'We largely had it at the beginning of the year in spring training. I felt pretty good about it, and then I had the shoulder thing, and I think it just kind of poofed away,' Buehler said. 'And then we've been in kind of a [expletive] spot. Now I feel healthy enough and all that kind of good stuff to get it up.' The past two starts have reaffirmed Buehler's spot in the rotation, but there are still the realities of his season and the Sox' pitching depth ― especially with Hunter Dobbins and Tanner Houck expected to return from the injured list soon. Asked if he feels like he is still fighting for his spot in the rotation, Buehler said 'probably in between.' 'There's some realities to the game and some really talented guys that we have that have been good at the big league level that are in Triple-A right now and deserve to pitch in the big leagues,' Buehler said. 'And at some point you've got to show some sign of being able to dominate a baseball game and not just survive it.' But for now, Buehler will take the positive signs into the All-Star break and aim to rediscover the type of dominant performances he feels are on the horizon. Advertisement 'To get back to that [positive] feeling, instead of pure kind of panic of 'how could I ever get anyone out,'' Buehler said. 'I think more so even than what happens on the field, I think that feeling is important for me.' Matty Wasserman can be reached at
Yahoo
08-07-2025
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Red Sox' Walker Buehler takes ‘step forward' — but knows work remains with 6.25 ERA
WASHINGTON — Walker Buehler allowed eight hits to a below-average Nationals offense, couldn't record an out past the fifth inning and worked around a lot of traffic Saturday. But considering how his last few weeks have gone, the outing represented tangible progress. Buehler, who entered with a 10.38 ERA and 19 walks in 26 innings over six starts dating back to May 31, allowed three runs (two earned) on eight hits in 5+ innings in Boston's 10-3 win at Nationals Park. He needed 100 pitches (65 strikes) to get 15 outs. Pitching with a big early lead after the Sox went up 9-0 in the third inning, Buehler did enough to get his sixth win of 2025. Advertisement 'It's a step forward,' Buehler said. 'I think keep saying, 'I'm closer, I'm closer, I'm closer.' Today, I think there was genuinely some more difference in the delivery. Confidence is a big thing in this game and the way I was moving and able to get through the first, I feel like I knew what the ball was going to do.' Buehler had walked 14 batters in his last three starts, including seven on June 23 in Anaheim. On Saturday, though, there were no free passes. 'They used to not be a real problem for me, but recently it's been a big one,' Buehler joked. 'But no homers, no walks... I think that's the first box checked for me.' Buehler set the tone for his outing with a 1-2-3 first after the Red Sox plated two runs in the top of the first inning on RBI doubles from lefty mashers Romy Gonzalez and Rob Refsnyder. He was bailed out of a second-inning jam by an impressive Jarren Duran running catch to rob Daylen Lile of an extra-base hit, then got an inning-ending (albeit run-scoring) double play with a nine-run lead in the third. Having a massive lead early in his outing allowed Buehler to try to pound the strike zone and work on the issues that have plagued him in recent weeks. Advertisement 'I wish I would have (thrown) more strikes and kind of gotten through those a little bit cleaner,' he said. 'You get nine runs and you're supposed to throw strikes and move through the lineup. I got hung up there a couple times.' Buehler said he felt his delivery was more in sync than it has been in previous outings and that focusing on getting his arm higher as he released the ball was a priority. The righty also largely cut down his six-pitch mix to focus on his curveball (28%), cutter (27%) and four-seamer (25%). 'There's some reasoning behind it and some stuff that we're trying to work on,' he said. 'Those three pitches are the ones that are the most evident of the delivery being better. I'm just trying to hammer that and also survive and throw some two-seams in there and a couple sweepers. 'The four-seam, cutter, curveball has kind of been my bread and butter. Everything else is kind of like an auxiliary piece. Trying to trim it down, make it simple and try and repeat what I'm trying to do.' Advertisement Manager Alex Cora credited Buehler for a 'good outing' and said the fastball, which averaged 94.1 mph on a hot day at Nationals Park, played up. Buehler's mix has been good for weeks, the manager believes, and the execution is starting to catch up. With one more start to go before the All-Star break, Buehler knows the work isn't done. With a 6.25 ERA through 15 starts this year, the ex-Dodger still believes he's fighting for his spot on Boston's roster. 'I don't think if we played a playoff game tomorrow that I would be one of the three that's going to go out there (in the rotation),' Buehler said. 'And that's something that has kind of carried me throughout my whole career. Still a lot of work to be done and stuff that I want to figure out and how I can help this team late in the year and. 'But yeah, today's definitely better than the alternative... Hopefully we keep taking little steps like that and hopefully at the end kind of put together a run at some point.' More Red Sox coverage Advertisement Read the original article on MassLive.
Boston Globe
05-07-2025
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- Boston Globe
Red Sox' offense keeps rolling in second consecutive rout of Nationals
Buehler held the Nationals to three runs (two earned) across five-plus innings, his best outing in weeks. Perhaps most importantly, he issued zero walks. All that was a major improvement over his recent messes. In his prior three starts, Buehler had allowed 17 runs and 31 baserunners (14 walks) in 11⅓ innings. Advertisement Ceddanne Rafaela exited the game prior to the bottom of the eighth inning after a couple of physically risky moments. In the top of the eighth, he took a tumble between second and third base on what was officially an RBI double. He got up quickly but grabbed at his back. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up In the sixth, in pursuit of Nathaniel Lowe's triple, he jumped into the center-field wall to break his momentum. He was slow to get up but otherwise appeared fine. The Red Sox have scored 61 runs in their past seven games. They are 5-2 in that stretch. Buehler escaped a jam in the second, when Washington put two on with one out. Daylen Lile skied a fly ball to deep left field, but Jarren Duran chased it down with a sprinting catch, saving an extra-base hit and at least one run. Advertisement The Nationals scratched across an unearned run in the third, when first baseman Abraham Toro and second baseman Romy Gonzalez committed errors on the same play — a potential inning-ending double play — to put runners on the corners with one out. CJ Abrams went on to score. Buehler wiggled out of more trouble in the fourth, when Washington loaded the bases with one out but managed just one run. Roman Anthony's diving catch in right field of Jacob Young's line drive ended the inning. Manager Alex Cora sought to squeeze an extra inning out of Buehler, sending him back for the sixth at 89 pitches. But Lowe tripled, sending Rafaela racing back to no avail (and jumping into the wall to stop his momentum; he was slow to get up but stayed in the game). When Josh Bell grounded Buehler's 100th pitch (65th strike) up the middle for an RBI single, Cora turned to Greg Weissert. Nonetheless, it was Buehler's longest outing since June 11. Using a different-looking lineup — which featured utility man Nate Eaton at the top and Duran dropped all the way to seventh against lefthander Mitchell Parker — the Red Sox got off to a quick start. Gonzalez and Rob Refsnyder each had an RBI double in the first inning. They blew it open with a seven-run third — the third time in five games that they scored at least that many runs in an inning. Gonzalez opened the frame with another double, and Anthony scored him with a single. With two outs, Duran lined a two-run triple to right-center field. Parker's fielding error — on a weak grounder by Toro — brought in Duran and opened the floodgates for five unearned runs. Advertisement Rafaela blasted his 10th home run of the year to left field. Gonzalez's third hit in as many innings concluded the scoring. Parker managed to last six innings, finishing with nine runs (four earned) allowed. Tim Healey can be reached at
USA Today
05-07-2025
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- USA Today
We hit 64 in our Raiders countdown to kickoff. Who wore it best and who's wearing it now
We've reached 64 days until the Raiders season opener at Foxboro against the Patriots, With our countdown at 64 days we take a look at who currently dons the number in Silver & Black and who has brought it the most distinction. No. 64 Who's wearing it now: C Jarrod Hufford Hufford in an undrafted rookie out of Iowa State. He has been running third team at center this offseason behind Jackson Powers-Johnson and Jordan Meredith. Who wore it best: G George Buehler In the second round of the 1969 NFL Draft, the Raiders said Buehler? Buehler? Buehler? And selected the Stanford alum at 50 overall. In his third season, he took over as the full time starting right guard and remained there for seven full seasons. The Raiders made the playoffs six straight seasons during that time including winning Super Bowl XI following the 1976 season.
