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7 days ago
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Boston Red Sox hurler shouts out teammates for ‘huge' play
BOSTON — Starter Lucas Giolito threw 6 scoreless innings in the Red Sox' 10-2 win over the Colorado Rockies at Fenway Park on Wednesday. He has allowed just three earned runs in 38 ⅔ innings (0.70 ERA) over his past six starts. Advertisement But Giolito was quick to shout out catcher Carlos Narváez 'and the defense.' 'Especially that one play we had — ball off the wall, relay in,' Giolito said. The Red Sox were ahead just 1-0 when they cut down the potential tying run at the plate to end the top of the fourth inning. Center fielder Jarren Duran barehanded Michael Toglia's double off the Green Monster. He threw to cutoff man Trevor Story who fired a strike from behind second base to catcher Carlos Narváez to throw out Tyler Freeman who tried to score from first base. 'Between JD and Trevor — to get the (runner) was huge," Giolito said. Advertisement There were actually two crucial throws that ended innings. Narváez threw out Jordan Beck trying to steal second base to end the first inning, his MLB leading 19th catcher caught stealing. Narváez's arm was the one area of his defense that the Red Sox felt needed to improve when they acquired him from the Yankees in December. They got the pitching department involved during spring training to help Narváez improve his throwing mechanics. He's in the 100th percentile among major league catchers in caught stealing above average (6). Manager Alex Cora said he thinks Narváez's footwork has made him so good at throwing out runners. Advertisement 'His footwork is really good,' Cora said. 'If you see him during pregame, when we're taking groundballs, he goes to second and short and he has good footwork. The exchange is quick but I think it starts with his feet.' Narváez also crushed his longest home run of the season in the second inning to put Boston ahead 1-0. It went 434 feet and left his bat at 108.3 mph. 'I thought we were getting a defensive catcher that was going to grow into probably an everyday player with time — not this year,' Cora said. 'But Connor (Wong) goes down with the injury and he took the baton and he's still running with it. 'You've gotta give him credit,' Cora added. 'For a guy that nobody expected this, he worked hard to get to this point offensively. Especially here (at Fenway). He does a good job pulling the ball in the air and taking advantage of the wall. He can shoot the ball the other way. And then behind the plate, that throw early in the game, framing pitches, blocking pitches, it's been fun to watch.' Advertisement More Red Sox coverage Read the original article on MassLive.
Al Arabiya
10-07-2025
- Sport
- Al Arabiya
Yoshida Leads Red Sox To Sweep Of Rockies With 10-2 Win
Masataka Yoshida went 3 for 4 with a double and an RBI in his season debut after undergoing shoulder surgery in October, and the Boston Red Sox completed a three-game sweep with a 10-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night. Carlos Narváez, Wilyer Abreu, Romy Gonzalez, and Jarren Duran homered for the Red Sox, who matched a season best with their sixth straight win. Lucas Giolito (6-1) went six scoreless innings, giving up four hits and no walks with six strikeouts. Narváez led off the second inning with his eighth home run of the season. Abreu added a two-out two-run homer in the fifth. Gonzalez hit a two-run homer in the eighth, scoring Yoshida after his ground-rule double, and Jarren Duran added a three-run shot in the inning. Yoshida, the designated hitter, also singled in the second and fourth innings. Colorado's Kyle Farmer hit two-run homer in the eighth inning off right-handed reliever Isaiah Campbell. Tyler Freeman's single leading off the fourth inning for the Rockies extended his career-best on-base streak to 23 games, the longest active streak in the majors. Key moment: With two outs and Freeman on first base in the fourth inning, the Rockies had a chance to tie the score on Michael Toglias' double off the wall in left-center. Instead, the Red Sox executed a perfect relay from center fielder Duran to shortstop Trevor Story to catcher Narváez to cut down Freeman at the plate. Key stat: Right-hander Antonio Senzatela (3-13, 6.60 ERA) extended his major league lead in losses, going five innings giving up four runs. Up next: The Red Sox host the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday with RHP Walker Buehler (6-6, 6.25 ERA) opposing RHP Taj Bradley (5-6, 4.79). The Rockies are off on Thursday before opening a three-game set in Cincinnati.
Winnipeg Free Press
08-07-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Red Sox hit 3 home runs, power past Rockies 9-3 to post 4th straight victory
BOSTON (AP) — Roman Anthony hit a two-run home run, Ceddanne Rafaela homered for the third straight game and the Boston Red beat the the Colorado Rockies 9-3 on Monday night. Boston rookie Richard Fitts (1-3) allowed five hits, two earned runs and struck out six over 5 2/3 innings to notch his first major league victory. Romy Gonzalez added a solo homer, and Abraham Toro had a two-run double to help Boston post its fourth straight win and seventh in nine games. Rockies starter Austin Gomber (0-2) exited after 4 2/3 innings, yielding five runs and seven hits, including Anthony's homer. Colorado's first run of the game was set up by a throwing error on Boston shortstop Trevor Story. In the sixth inning, the Rockies pulled to 5-3 on a fielder's choice RBI by Michael Toglia and RBI single by Ryan McMahon. But Boston added to its lead an inning later via RBI singles by Jarren Duran and Carlos Narváez Key moment With the score tied 1-1 in the second, Toro hit a line drive double over the head of Toglia, scoring Tyler Freeman and Carlos Narváez. It capped a three-run inning. Key stat Thursdays Keep up to date on sports with Mike McIntyre's weekly newsletter. Gonzalez's home run, which cleared the Green Monster, traveled 454 feet according to Statcast, trying Mike Trout (June 2) for the longest this season at Fenway Park. Up next Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (1-9, 5.49 ERA) will face Red Sox RHP Brayan Bello (4-3, 3.42) on Tuesday. ___ AP MLB:
Yahoo
02-07-2025
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- Yahoo
Boston's Chapman lights up radar gun at age 37 and has bigger numbers in mind than his 350th save
Boston Red Sox pitcher Aroldis Chapman throws during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell) Boston Red Sox pitcher Aroldis Chapman, right, is congratulated by catcher Carlos Narváez (75) after defeating the Cincinnati Reds following the ninth inning of a baseball game, a continuation of a game the night before which was suspended due to rain, Wednesday, July 2, 2025, at Fenway Park, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Boston Red Sox pitcher Aroldis Chapman, right, is congratulated by catcher Carlos Narváez (75) after defeating the Cincinnati Reds following the ninth inning of a baseball game, a continuation of a game the night before which was suspended due to rain, Wednesday, July 2, 2025, at Fenway Park, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Boston Red Sox pitcher Aroldis Chapman throws during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell) Boston Red Sox pitcher Aroldis Chapman, right, is congratulated by catcher Carlos Narváez (75) after defeating the Cincinnati Reds following the ninth inning of a baseball game, a continuation of a game the night before which was suspended due to rain, Wednesday, July 2, 2025, at Fenway Park, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) BOSTON (AP) — At 37-years-old, Boston closer Aroldis Chapman routinely lights up the radar gun at 100 mph. He also sees a bigger number he'd like to reach. Chapman pitched a perfect ninth inning Wednesday and earned his 350th career save as the Red Sox beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-3 in the completion of a game suspended by rain a night earlier. Advertisement 'My goal is to reach 400,' said Chapman through a team translator. 'I know that's not an easy task to accomplish, but I'm going to keep working hard to accomplish that goal.' Chapman, now in his 18th season in the majors, has been hurt at times during his career by wildness and knew that was something he had to fix. The left-hander has walked just 10 in 35 innings this season and converted 15 of 16 save opportunities. 'The thing I know is that during the offseason I worked very hard to get this point to be able to not walk as many guys as I did in the past because it was one of the problems I had,' Chapman said to the media in the middle of clubhouse, with sweat still dripping from his forehead. 'To be able to accomplish that is great.' Advertisement On Wednesday, he struck out Elly De La Cruz, the third batter in the Reds' lineup, with a 101.3 mph sinker. Next, he got cleanup hitter Austin Hays to bounce to short before Gavin Lux also grounded to short for the final out. 'It's the same for every hitter,' he said, when asked if facing the middle of the order created any more adrenaline. 'You know that the three-four hitters are coming up against you.' The final two outs came on pitches of 99 mph or more. Chapman also finds some satisfaction in hitting that high number on the radar gun at his age. 'I won't say proud,' he said. 'But I would say happy that I'm able to get to that velocity and also that my arm is healthy and in pretty good shape." ___ AP MLB:
New York Times
27-06-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
It's not just that the Red Sox are losing. They look lost
BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox return to Fenway Park Friday night for the opener of a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays. It'll be the first time the Sox have worn the home whites since the Rafael Devers salary dump, er, trade, and much has happened between then and now. As in: The Sox seem to have forgotten how to play baseball. Advertisement But rather than submit a game-by-game, inning-by-inning breakdown of the recently completed West Coast road trip, during which the Sox went 3-6, I'm going to put just two plays on the blackboard for analysis and discussion. One of the plays, which I'll call Happier Times, is from when the Red Sox swept a three-game series from the Yankees at Fenway Park to inch ever closer to first place in the American League East. The other, which I'll call The Aftermath, is from the bow-wow West Coast trip. Happier Times: In the middle game of Boston's three-game sweep of the Yankees — Saturday, June 14 — the Yankees scored two seventh-inning runs to cut Boston's lead from 4-0 to 4-2 and now had the tying runs on base, two down. Trent Grisham was up. He swung and missed at a Justin Wilson offering for strike two. That's when Sox catcher Carlos Narváez, the former Yankees farmhand, observed that the Yankees' Jasson Domínguez, apparently thinking it was strike three, was wandering off second base. Narváez pounced. Domínguez, dead. End of Yankee rally. The Sox held on for a 4-3 victory. Carlos Narváez picks the runner off of SECOND BASE to end the inning! 😳 — MLB (@MLB) June 15, 2025 The aftermath: In the finale of Boston's three-game series against the San Francisco Giants last Sunday at Oracle Park, eighth inning, Sox trailing 8-5, Jarren Duran led off and hit a hard single to right. He tried to stretch it into a double. But the right fielder was Mike Yastrzemski, and, as Yazzes will do, he fired a strong throw to second to nail Duran. I highlight the two plays because they're fine examples of how much has gone wrong with the Red Sox in just one week. In the Duran case, we have a base runner trying to take second with nobody out, down by three, eighth inning. While it's true that replays seem to indicate Duran managed to get a finger back on the base ahead of the tag after initially overrunning the bag, the ensuing ejections of Duran and Sox manager Alex Cora served only to focus greater attention on Duran's blunder. The manager later explained that part of his rant was over an earlier play in which Abraham Toro was ruled out of the baseline on a play at the plate, but Cora added that, 'I hate to get thrown out. I hate it. But obviously, I have to defend my player,' meaning Duran. Advertisement That's some nice, old-timey baseball there, I guess, the manager 'protecting' Duran. It doesn't work here, though. It's not Cora's job, or shouldn't be, to play hockey dad after one of his players screws up. Yes, it's vitally important for the offense-challenged Red Sox to be looking to scratch out every run — hey, they have no choice now that Devers is gone and they're averaging 3.1 runs per game — but there's 'aggressive base running' and there's 'bad base running.' This was bad base running, which is a facet of bad baseball, which has become the Red Sox Way. While it's commendable on one level that Duran's mindset is to 'make something happen,' base running like this is happening too often. The aforementioned Narváez play was indicative of how the Red Sox conducted their affairs in the three-game sweep of the Yankees. The Sox were suddenly playing clean, crisp baseball, making the big plays and being attentive to little details, such as the catcher keeping a sharp eye on what baserunners are up to. In that same game, rookie third baseman Marcelo Mayer had Fenway Park roaring with back-to-back outstanding defensive plays. In Boston's 2-0 close-out victory on Sunday, the Bombers' Aaron Judge hit into an inning-ending 5-4-3 double play that was all the more impressive considering it was Toro to Kristian Campbell to Romy Gonzalez. That's not how the Red Sox envisioned their infield coming into the season. But it worked. Back then, everything was working. The fans took notice. And Cora took notice that the fans were taking notice. 'This weekend here, compared to last year against (the Yankees), it was loud, it was fun, people showed up early and they were into every pitch,' Cora said after the three-game sweep. 'They stood up with two strikes. I haven't seen that in a lot of years.' Advertisement You know what else was working? Devers as designated hitter. For all the early concerns about Devers making the transition from third baseman to DH, he had figured it out to the tune of 15 home runs, 58 RBIs and a .272/.401/.504 slash line. And yet, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow and president/CEO Sam Kennedy, post-trade, dropped little breadcrumbs about Devers being some kind of bad influence on the kids in the clubhouse. That was then. This is … wow. And wow in a bad way. As in yikes. It's not just that the Red Sox are losing. They look lost. (Photo of Willy Adames gesturing to the Giants dugout after tagging out Jarren Duran: D. Ross Cameron / Imagn Images)
