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Red Sox Minor Lines: Nick Sogard is heating up
Buffalo Bisons 4, Worcester Red Sox 3 (BOX) Worcester took the lead early in this one against the Bisons (TOR — and here’s your annual reminder that the plural of bison is “bison”) thanks to a solo shot by first baseman Nick Sogard. Sogard is heating up, with four multi-hit efforts in the last six […]
Do you want to go to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox this summer?
If you’re visiting Over the Monster this morning, it’s because you care about the Boston Red Sox. Every day, most of us read, write, and talk about a baseball team that is, at the very least, background noise for our summers. Whether at the game, on the television, or on the radio, the Red Sox […]
Sonny Gray looks great for the Red Sox, but keep the caution on standby
The Red Sox are starting to pitch like the rotation they were built to be over the offseason. That’s even with Garrett Crochet still on the shelf as he strengthens his way back from left shoulder inflammation. A big part of better turns through the rotation lately comes from a solid run of starts from […]
Phillies 3, Red Sox 1; Kyle Schwarber sinks Boston in finale
The Red Sox had another installment of regularly-scheduled programming: the pitching staff gives them a chance to win and the offense offers another lifeless performance. Boston scored just one run in the eighth inning and could not match Philadelphia in the 3-1 loss. Kyle Schwarber changed the game with one swing to move Philadelphia to […]
Game 43: Phillies vs. Red Sox; Ranger Suarez duels with former club
TV: NESN First Pitch: 6:45 p.m. ET The Red Sox send their main pitching acquisition to the mound in search of a series win (weather permitting) Thursday night. Ranger Suarez faces the Philadelphia Phillies for the first time. He also makes his first start since leaving his last outing with hamstring tightness on May 3 […]
Red Sox News & Links: Garrett Crochet progressing towards return from shoulder injury
Starting pitching has not been the Red Sox problem in 2026. And with Payton Tolle performing well and Brayan Bello possibly bouncing back thanks to the use of an opener, the staff has more than held its own in the absence of Garrett Crochet. But Crochet isn’t taking any chances. Yesterday, he completed his first […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: Brooks Brannon shows up with home run
Worcester: W, 6-2 (BOX SCORE) Although the WooSox again had to go to a bullpen game, nearly everyone pitched well and kept the Bison (Blue Jays AAA) off the board. Worcester then subjected Buffalo to death by a thousand cuts, as all nine of their hits were singles, but a good third inning where they […]
The Red Sox trading for Mike Trout might actually make sense
On Tuesday, radio ratings connoisseur Mike Felger dropped this whopper as it pertains to Mike Trout and the Red Sox: The best part of the clip comes right in the middle, when Felger rattles off the reasons his slippery source believes a blockbuster trade of this magnitude is possible. All are significant enough for a […]
Will The Red Sox and Phillies get rained out?
Below is a loop of this morning’s HRRR weather model simulating conditions over the northeast U.S. between Noon and Midnight: As you can see, there’s going to be a strong southerly fetch of moisture off the Atlantic into eastern New England for several hours during the afternoon and early evening. However, around sunset, the orientation […]
Red Sox 3, Phillies 1: Ceddanne Rafaela is the hero off the bench!
The Red Sox won a baseball game in which they didn’t obtain an early lead!!!! If you want to learn more, continue reading! STUDS Willson Contreras: I’ve always been a fan of dudes who play good defense and hit, which isn’t exactly shocking information but there haven’t been very many of them around these parts […]
Game 42: Phillies at Red Sox; Willson Contreras returns to the lineup
TV: NESN First Pitch: 6:45 p.m. ET The Red Sox and Phillies will tell us a lot about themselves during Wednesday’s matchup at Fenway Park. Boston and Philadelphia both notably fired their managers three weeks ago, with the former treading water (7-7) since dismissing Alex Cora in favor of Chad Tracy, while the latter has […]
Red Sox Bingo is here! Win a prize!
Last year, Dan and I recorded a pre-season podcast where we drafted spots for a Red Sox Bingo card that we never ended up making. I never ended up making. It was me. Despite that, we recorded a pre-season podcast this year where we drafted spots for a Red Sox Bingo card that I never […]
Can the Red Sox make ABS challenges work for them?
Were you excited about the ABS challenge system at the start of the season? Did you think Craig Breslow’s “pitching and defense team” would be taking advantage of a new tool to help them reach the playoffs again? Well, so far challenges aren’t really a Red Sox thing. Whether this was an Alex Cora decision […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: A tough offensive night on the farm
Worcester: L, 2-7 (BOX SCORE) As has often been the case due to the fact that so many of their Opening Day rotation members are now pitching in Boston, the WooSox ran into some early trouble and it didn’t get any better as the night went on. Raymond Burgos gave up three early runs (though […]
What do the Red Sox have in Jake Bennett?
Pitching injuries happen. They have always happened, and they always will happen. That’s why when someone says “there’s no such thing as too much pitching”, they’re correct, regardless of how much pitching that team actually has. You could have a rotation of prime Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander, Pedro Martinez, Cy Young, and Randy Johnson, and […]
The Red Sox really, really cannot hit
Good morning! The Boston Red Sox have scored just four runs in their last three games. It is now abundantly clear that this is not a good offensive team. Moreover, it won’t be a good offensive team even if we see a little bit of a bounce back from Trevor Story, Caleb Durbin, Carlos Narvaez, […]
Phillies 2, Red Sox 1: Brayan Bello’s bounce back squandered by bleak bats
For some reason, I’m not anywhere near as angry as I should be after another loss in which the Red Sox lineup looked like it was reenacting something out of the Deadball Era. Tonight, some of the highlights lowlights included: But do you know what surprised me the most about tonight? The Red Sox almost […]
Game No. 41: Phillies at Red Sox — Brayan Bello tries to do it again
One of the old adages in Major League Baseball is that all teams win a third of their games, all teams lose a third of their games, and it’s that middle third that separates pretenders from the contenders. Well, let’s just say that on paper, this is one of the games that looks like a […]
Red Sox News & Links: Giving thanks for rookie starters
The Red Sox and Phillies have had similar starts to the season: they’re two big ballclubs with big aspirations who both immediately fell on their faces, prompting two managerial firings. And while the Phillies have done a better job righting the ship under their new skipper than the Sox have, they’ll both share some history […]
The Red Sox need to move on from Trevor Story
The Boston Red Sox are mid… I’ll be the first to admit that it’s looking like “mid” might be enough to secure one of the final playoff spots in the American League in 2026, but you aren’t exactly allowed to fall under that distinction when you’re routinely trotting out suboptimal lineups, unable to play the […]
Phillies meet Red Sox in battle of struggling teams with new managers
Despite their best efforts — and the effort was there on Sunday by Payton Tolle and others — the Red Sox lost another series. This time to the Tampa Bay Rays. The Sox briefly rose to 4th place in the AL East before the Sox dropped the series, the Orioles won, and Boston returned to […]
How do you feel about MLB’s balanced schedule?
Happy Tuesday, Red Sox Nation. The Red Sox start a three-game series with the Philadelphia Phillies today. It marks the fifth National League opponent the Red Sox have played over the first month of the season. The balanced schedule has been around for a few years now, with fewer divisional games and everyone playing everyone, […]
Red Sox News & Links: Injury updates on Ranger Suárez, Roman Anthony
For all the consternation about Caleb Durbin’s bat, at least his glove appears to working just fine. “Not hitting stinks when you feel like you’re a good hitter and you feel like you should be helping the team and producing on that side of the ball, but I know I can impact the game outside […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: Anthony Eyanson makes first Double-A start, Franklin Arias rakes
Worcester: L, 2-3 (BOX SCORE) Alec Gamboa went from making his Major League debut earlier in the weekend to pitching five innings of one-run baseball for the WooSox in the finale against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Yankees AAA). Unfortunately, Jack Anderson would come in and let up what would become the game-losing home run, but let’s not pin […]
Behind an improving Jarren Duran, the Red Sox are making progress
Well I guess that was technically better? Maybe the very nature of an awful start makes the pickings pretty slim, but we gotta take whatever we can get at this point, right? Dropping the set to Tampa obviously stings, but that was still a 4-2 record this week. That’s……………..improvement, I suppose. Even if the bar […]
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