Angels (Johnson) vs Red Sox (Bennett): 09/09/26, 6:45 PM

[Brock Beauchamp]

Bennett gets the ball for the Red Sox against Johnson and the Angels at Fenway Park tonight.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Wyatt Olds	0	17	0	30	0	47
Raymond Burgos	0	0	0	0	33	33
Jovani Morán	0	15	10	0	0	25
Greg Weissert	0	13	0	0	16	29
Garrett Whitlock	10	0	0	15	0	25
Erik Miller	0	0	14	0	0	14
Aroldis Chapman	11	0	19	0	0	30
Alec Gamboa	0	0	0	12	0	12

[vegasbob]

It is time for the bats to get working and pound out an easy victory for the team and Bennett . 

The BP is reasonably well set up to close this series with a win and go into an off day.

A win today also guarantees a .500 season  which in the old days of the 50's and 60's would have been an achievement.   Now it is a minimum requirement which was not achieved a couple times in the past 5 years

[NHNative]

Ah--it seems Mick will be seen behind the plate tonight.

[vegasbob]

1 hour ago, NHNative said:

Ah--it seems Mick will be seen behind the plate tonight.

Which would seem to imply that Adley's elbow is currently chronic and sore .   For Rutschman, the end of the season can't come soon enough.   He will labor through whatever run the Sox can make but he may be a part time parti

[Randy Red Sox]

17 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Which would seem to imply that Adley's elbow is currently chronic and sore .   For Rutschman, the end of the season can't come soon enough.   He will labor through whatever run the Sox can make but he may be a part time parti

making the trade look even worse

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

2 hours ago, NHNative said:

Ah--it seems Mick will be seen behind the plate tonight.

This doesn't have to mean Rutschman is aching, but getting more precautionary rest -- like they just did pushing Suarez' next start back a week (like Gray last week)...

... and ensuring Mickey stays sharp at multiple positions so they can justify keeping his bat on the postseason roster -- and not have to watch/listen to Six States of protesters storming the Fenway front offices and even rioting if they get shutout by Schlittler and Bad Company.