For the eighth sport in a row to kick off the 2026 MLB season, the Boston Crimson Sox failed to attain greater than 5 runs. They’re the one group in baseball that has but to take action this season. Get used to this.
The lineup isn’t going to be this anemic all season lengthy — and it definitely gained’t be bitterly chilly with an easterly wind whipping off the harbor all season lengthy. However the 2026 Crimson Sox simply aren’t going to scare many opposing pitchers.
Sure, there’s Roman Anthony. And in within the fifth inning he laced a triple to place the game-tying run on third base. The issue for Anthony and the Crimson Sox, although, is that there have been already two outs and the person hitting behind him doesn’t belong close to the highest of an MLB lineup. It’s now been six years since Trevor Story was an actual asset on offense. And in the important thing at-bat of the center innings with Anthony 90 toes from dwelling, he weakly grounded out to second.
On the pitching facet of issues, Connelly Early wasn’t that sharp as we speak. He walked 4 batters in simply 4 innings and spent plenty of the sport nibbling across the edges. However he restricted arduous contact, struck out Fernando Tatis twice, and saved his group within the sport, making him one of many few Crimson Sox gamers who did his job as we speak.
Willson Contreras, 1-4 R, Okay
He scored the primary run of the sport and blasted a ball that may’ve been an additional base hit if Fernando Tatis didn’t cowl extra floor than another proper fielder I’ve ever seen. He’s seeing the ball nicely and goes to be massively necessary this season.
Marcelo Mayer, 1-3, RBI, 2 Okay
He knocked within the Sox first run of the sport with a sac fly and, as soon as once more, regarded good on the market within the subject. There’s no advance stat for this, however he continues to simply appear to be a ballplayer, y’know?
Triples are horny, ergo Roman Anthony is horny. Additionally he’s the one man on the group who received a number of hits.
It wasn’t simply the groundout with Anthony on third. He additionally got here up with two on and no out within the eighth and struck out. The Sox ended up scraping a run throughout in that inning anyway, however it’s at-bats like that one which make it arduous to place crooked numbers on the board.
Simply as Story doesn’t belong on the prime of a lineup, Durbin doesn’t belong within the six gap. Sure, he received successful as we speak. Nevertheless it was an infield dribbler and he continues to swing the bat like a person who’s afraid to harm the baseball. And whereas Freddy Fermin’s RBI double down the third baseline undoubtedly wasn’t his fault, it’s, sadly, a reality that somebody aside from the shortest third baseman within the league may’ve been in a position to get a glove on it.
Aroldis Chapman, 1 IP, 2 H, Okay, 1 ER
He was introduced right into a tie sport within the ninth and tasked with protecting it a tie sport. He didn’t.
I’m not placing a Padres game-winner right here, so let’s take one other take a look at Roman’s triple.
