Red Sox Week in Review: More Like the Boston Strand Sox

Image courtesy of © Eric Canha-Imagn Images

Red Sox Video

Boston Red Sox Weekly Snapshot

Record Last Week: 2-4

Runs Scored Last Week:13

Runs Surrendered Last Week: 21

Standings:

5th in AL East

10 GB First Place

Transactions:

04/29/26: Red Sox recalled OF Nate Eaton from Worcester Red Sox.

04/29/26: Red Sox placed LHP Garrett Crochet on the 15-day injured list retroactive to 04/26/26. Left shoulder inflammation.

04/30/26: Red Sox optioned OF Nate Eaton to Worcester Red Sox.

05/01/26: Red Sox recalled LHP Jake Bennett from Worcester Red Sox.

Scores:

Game 28 (4/27): BOS 5, TOR 0

Game 29 (4/28): BOS 0, TOR 3

Game 30 (4/29): BOS 1, TOR 8

Game 31 (5/01): BOS 3, HOU 1

Game 32 (5/02): BOS 3, HOU 6

Game 33 (5/03): BOS , HOU 3

Series Breakdown/Highlights

Blue Jays Series: The Red Sox never really looked overmatched by Dylan Cease during the first game of the series. Ranger Suarez was magical for the Sox, tossing eight scoreless innings, giving up only one hit while striking out 10 on the night. The offense seemed to be firing on all cylinders against one of the better starters in the league and maybe, just maybe, there was some hope for a turnaround on the horizon. Then games two and three happened. The offense fell back into their ways of not working at-bats, leaving the top half of innings in 10 pitches or less on more than one occasion. Trey Yesavage out-dueled Payton Tolle, who was clearly laboring through arm fatigue after pitching just four days prior, in game two. Then, game three gave us another forgettable outing from Brayan Bello, who looks like a shell of the Bello we saw last season.

Astros Series: The Fenway Greens were out in full force during game one of the series. The game was circled on some people’s calendars solely because the pitching matchup had ‘TBD’ for the opener instead of Garrett Crochet. He landed on the 15-day IL with left shoulder inflammation and LHP Jake Bennett was called up to make the start. He pitched well, tossing five innings one one-run baseball while striking out three. Jarren Duran’s bat seemed to finally be waking up as he was good for all three runs the Sox scored in the victory after he put a three-run home run into the seats behind the home bullpen.

On Saturday though, Connelly Early looked far from sharp. He surrendered five earned runs over four innings, mostly due to the fact he couldn’t command his pitches at all during the outing. In the final game of the series, Duran was responsible for the lone run with another home run, but Zack Kelly allowed two runs in extra innings to let the game slip away. Ranger Suarez was pitching well, striking out three through four innings but as he walked off the field after the fourth, he seemed to tell Andrew Bailey that he wasn’t going back out. It later was revealed that he was removed due to right hamstring tightness. The bigger story of the entire series was that the Red Sox couldn’t do anything with runners in scoring position. The Astros were begging them to score runs in both game two and three and the Red Sox just couldn’t do it. The bases were loaded multiple times in both games and the team couldn’t do anything to get runners across.