Red Sox Week in Review: Owners of the Worst Record In Baseball

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Record Last Week: 1-6

Runs Scored Last Week: 22

Runs Surrendered Last Week: 39

Standings:

5th in AL East

5.5 GB of 1st Place

Transactions:

3/31/26: RHP Angel Bastardo returned to Red Sox from Blue Jays.

4/03/26: Red Sox recall RHP Zack Kelly from Worcester Red Sox.

4/03/26: Red Sox recalled RHP Tyler Uberstine from Worcester Red Sox.

4/03/26: Red Sox placed RHP Johan Oviedo on 15-day injured list retroactive to March 31. Right elbow strain.

4/04/26: Red Sox place RHP Garrett Whitlock on the paternity list.

4/04/26: RHP Jedixon Paez returned to Red Sox from White Sox.

Scores:

Game 3 (3/29): BOS 2, CIN 3

Game 4 (3/30): BOS 1, HOU 8

Game 5 (3/31): BOS 2, HOU 9

Game 6 (4/01): BOS 4, HOU 6

Game 7 (4/03): BOS 5, SD 2

Game 8 (4/04): BOS 2, SD 3

Game 9 (4/05): BOS 6, SD 8

TL;DR Breakdown/Highlights

Astros Series: Very little went right in the series in Houston. The team looked lost offensively for the first two games and struggled on defense as well. Ranger Suarez made his Red Sox debut and gave up four earned runs in 4 ⅓ innings pitched, walking one and striking out three. What was maybe the most disheartening part of the entire series was watching Lance McCullers Jr. turn the clock back and strikeout the Sox nine times in a nearly flawless performance. RHP Brayan Bello failed to look sharp in his debut against the Astros as well, and the highlight of his start was when he walked a hitter he previously struck out in the same at-bat (no one on the field remembered what the count was). On top of everything else, catcher Carlos Narvaez was benched in the finale of the series for reasons that both he and Alex Cora are keeping close to the vest.

Padres Series: Game one of the Padres series, and the home opener for the Sox, showed that this team could hang with other professional baseball teams. Game two wasted a gutsy performance by Connelly Early who didn’t have his best stuff early on but settled throughout the game. Game three was the heartbreaker, though. Through the first three innings of the game, Suarez looked like the pitcher the Red Sox splurged $130 million on. The offense seemed to be firing on all cylinders, and a multi-run inning was finally happening to fire up Red Sox fans everywhere. Then, in the fourth, the Suarez from the Astros series showed back up. He lacked control and the Padres took advantage. In the fifth, Greg Weissert entered the game and promptly gave up the lead on a Manny Machado home run. The Red Sox rallied in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game, but the top of the eighth put all forward momentum to a stop when Uberstine was left in for a third inning in his MLB debut. The team was playing with a short bullpen with Whitlock, Aroldis Chapman, and Justin Slaten all unavailable for the conclusion of the series, but Zack Kelly was warm in the pen. At Wilyer Abreu has been red hot and looks to be the offensive leader of this team.