Jen McCaffrey

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Jen McCaffrey

BOSTON - In a tie game in the bottom of the ninth, Ceddanne Rafalea swatted a ball down the right-field line toward Pesky's Pole. There was momentary confusion. Fair or foul? In a tense, back-and-forth affair, with the Red Sox in desperate need of a win, having battled back four separate times on Wednesday, the team poured out of its Fenway Park dugout in celebration, almost willing the ball to fair territory. A crew chief review of the homer threatened to wipe out their exuberance.

3 days ago | nytimes.com | Jen McCaffrey

BOSTON - Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora usually keeps the same steady tone after wins and after losses. To him, it's necessary throughout a long season not to read too much into one game. Not Tuesday. After the team's major-league leading 17th one-run loss this season, a 4-3 defeat to the Los Angeles Angels in 10 innings, Cora didn't hold back his frustration. "We keep making the same mistakes, we're not getting better," Cora said. "At one point, it has to be on me, I guess, right? I'm the manager.

3 days ago | nytimes.com | Jen McCaffrey

BOSTON - Triston Casas carefully maneuvered his lumbering 6-foot-4 frame, propped up on crutches, across the Boston Red Sox clubhouse on Tuesday afternoon. A heavy brace stabilized his left knee from his thigh to his shin. Just over a month ago, Casas landed awkwardly on his right foot after running out a ground ball and went down immediately, rupturing his left patellar tendon. His recovery will be long and arduous with Casas targeting a return to the team by Opening Day 2026.

4 days ago | nytimes.com | Jen McCaffrey

BOSTON - Trevor Story's struggles at the plate this season haven't been hard to miss. The 32-year-old entered Monday hitting .222 with a .603 OPS and just 11 extra-base hits in 236 plate appearances over 57 games. And yet after a productive trip last week, in which he went 4-for-14 with a homer and a double, smoking two hits over 105 mph on Sunday, there were glimpses of Story turning a corner.

4 days ago | nytimes.com | Jen McCaffrey

When the 2025 season began with optimism for Boston Red Sox fans and players alike for the first time in years, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow's offseason work to retool the roster was applauded. But a little more than a third of the way through the season, it's becoming increasingly clear that while Breslow addressed some significant holes, he also left the roster vulnerable to injuries, with seemingly little foresight on how the team might handle losses to the projected everyday lineup.