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More fun facts: The Red Sox are now 48-22. +26 is the high-water mark of the season. They have won 9 of 12. 25-11 on the road. Starting pitchers have allowed 2 or fewer ER in 10 of the last 11. David Price 8-4, 3.76. Team has won his last seven starts.

... and still hitting dingers as well.

Unsurprisingly, Carson Smith is out for the year with shoulder surgery. Damn.

Flights to Omaha aren't cheap.

Dogpile!

Mookie is BACK!!! (and in the lineup for tonight...)

First series loss since May 14-16 vs Oakland. Definitely sucks losing to a crap team like the White Sox, but this is what happens when the bats go cold. Not-so-fun fact: The last 4 game, the Red Sox are 2 for 36 with RISP. 1-11, 0-6, 0-9, 1-10. Mookie will likely play a rehab game or two before coming back, but when he does, it won’t be a moment too soon.

Maybe Jalen Beeks isn’t quite ready for the bigs. Oh well. See ya in a year or two, kid.

Too good not to post twice. Was Nomar Garciaparra the most fruitful Draft pick ever? Along with Matt Murton, they sent him to the Cubs. The Cubs sent Francis Beltran, Alex Gonzalez and Brendan Harris to the Expos, and traded Minor Leaguer Justin Jones to the Twins. The Red Sox got Doug Mientkiewicz from the Twins and Orlando Cabrera from the Expos. You may remember 2004 as the year Boston finally broke an 86-year-old curse and won the World Series. They got there thanks in no small part to Cabrera. 2005 In January, Cabrera signed with the Angels. Under the old rules governing free agency, the Red Sox got two compensation Draft picks. With pick No. 23, they drafted Jacoby Ellsbury. He made his debut in 2007 … the year the Sox won yet another World Series. (The second compensation pick, No. 45, was Jed Lowrie. The Red Sox flipped him to the Astros for Mark Melancon, then sent Melancon to the Pirates for Joel Hanrahan and Brock Holt.) 2013 Ellsbury picked up a second ring with Boston in 2013, then signed with the Yankees that winter. 2014 After losing Ellsbury to New York, the Sox got the No. 33 pick in the 2014 Draft as compensation. The team picked up RHP Michael Kopech, who became a top prospect in the organization. 2016 During the Winter Meetings, the Red Sox announced a blockbuster trade -- Yoan Moncada, Luis Alexander Basabe, Victor Diaz and Kopech were going to the White Sox. In exchange, Boston got Chris Sale, just off an All-Star season where he'd led the American League in strikeouts. If the Sox had never drafted Nomar, they never could have traded for Cabrera. That doesn't necessarily mean that they don't win the World Series in 2004, but it does mean they don't get the Draft pick that brings Ellsbury to Boston. Ellsbury was a big part of both the 2007 and 2013 championship teams, and the key that eventually brought Sale the strikeout machine to Fenway. In the bleakest possible scenario, without Nomar, the Sox are out three World Series titles and seven seasons of Ellsbury, and certainly aren't in the Sale sweepstakes in 2016. But Nomar was drafted, and that single pick is still bringing returns to Boston. Does that make it the most fruitful draft pick ever?

I'm biased, but thought this was cool:

A few stats, courtesy of Pete Abraham: * The Sox are 10-1 this year when Eduardo Rodriguez starts. * Bradley has an .841 OPS since May 20. * Martinez has 124 RBIs in his last 124 games. * Devers .206/.255/.370 since April 10. (fuck) * Moreland .310/.326/.667 post Hanley.

Has the pederast been drafted yet?

I’ll take 2 out 4 in Houston any time... Fun facts: On April 25, Andrew Benintendi was hitting .218 with a .706 OPS. In the 35 games since, he's hitting .341 with a 1.039 OPS, 8 homers, 11 doubles, 3 triples, and 28 RBI. He's 10th in the majors in batting, 8th in OPS, and tied with Trout for the fifth most extra-base hits (22).

Giles’ intro music and video montage is hIlarious.

What’s up with the crowd tonight? Everyone assume it was a 7:00 game?

After the first two, they really needed last night. If they can somehow split the series against the defending World Series champions, on the road, without their best player swinging a bat once, I’ll count that as a major early-season victory. First Sunday night baseball game of the year tonight... Go Sox.

Pomeranz is a fucking dumpster fire. Also, Pedroia gets the late scratch with soreness in the left knee... the same knee he had surgery on. Fuck.

Yup.

Aaaaand Mookie is out again. Fifth straight day. This series isn’t off to a good start.

Nice hit.

I know RBIs aren't a thing any more, but JD Martinez has 119 of them in 119 games since the 2017 All-Star break. (stolen from Twitter)

Nice sweep vs Toronto, right before the 4-game series in Houston this weekend... This should be a good early test to see really how much better this year’s club than last year’s. I’m going to the Friday and Sunday night games, and will be 100% a-ok with splitting the series. But there’s definitely a sliver of a chance they can win 3 of 4...

I was liking the reboot, if just for the nostalgia factor. It's a damn shame Roseanne can't stop CR-ing it up and screwing over herself (and the entire cast & crew) out of a paycheck for the next year or two.

It's fantastic. I'm liking more of the backstory in s2 than in s1... obviously since they're able to go beyond the novel at this point. Well written, well shot, and incredibly-well acted... one of the best dramas currently on tv/streaming today. I'm behind an episode on this season, but I've liked "June" (ep 1) and "Other Women" (ep 4) the most so far. It's been pretty damn brutal at times, but still very much worth watching.

Sale vs the Braves didn’t go so well. His next start will be against the Astros... gulp.