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Smith and Grissom have been two big drags in the lineup so far, neither of them distinguishing themselves in any way.  Grissom is supposed to be a solid y oung player so it is strange that he has looked so crappy both in the field and especially at the bat. Smith failed miserably with the Mets and on two other teams he has played for so the question is why the heck is this guy even with our team.  Do we keep  taking other teams' failures?

7:10PM Eastern

Red Sox

Nick Pivetta (R)

Jarren Duran (L) CF
Wilyer Abreu (L) RF
Connor Wong (R) DH
Rafael Devers (L) 3B
Tyler O'Neill (R) LF
Dominic Smith (L) 1B
Vaughn Grissom (R) 2B
Reese McGuire (L) C
Ceddanne Rafaela (R) SS

Rays

Aaron Civale (R)

Yandy Díaz (R) 1B
Randy Arozarena (R) LF
Josh Lowe (L) RF
Isaac Paredes (R) DH
Amed Rosario (R) 3B
Jonny DeLuca (R) CF
Richie Palacios (L) 2B
José Caballero (R) SS
Alex Jackson (R) C

Gametime Temp: 70F
Chance of Precip: 1%

The second  series vs. the NL East.  Got to win this series of it's bad mojo down the road.

My friends, you are now seeing what I have been saying for the past month now---THIS RED SOX TEAM GETS BEHIND BY A RUN OR TWO AND THEY CANNOT COME BACK FROM THAT AND WIN A GAME.

7:10PM Eastern

Red Sox

Kutter Crawford (R)

Jarren Duran (L) LF
Wilyer Abreu (L) RF
Connor Wong (R) C
Rafael Devers (L) 3B
Tyler O'Neill (R) DH
Dominic Smith (L) 1B
Vaughn Grissom (R) 2B
Romy Gonzalez (R) SS
Ceddanne Rafaela (R) CF

Rays

Zach Eflin (R)

Yandy Díaz (R) 1B
Randy Arozarena (R) LF
Josh Lowe (L) RF
Harold Ramírez (R) DH
Amed Rosario (R) 3B
Richie Palacios (L) 2B
José Caballero (R) SS
Alex Jackson (R) C
Jose Siri (R) CF

Gametime Temp: 63F
Chance of Precip: 0%

We win another series after  a losing streak......that's good.  The hitting is a little stale right now and our defense still needs work.  What I would like to see is a good coming week and we go five or six games above 500 and see some of guys start hitting again.  Two games above 500 is better than two games below but do need to show that we can be more consistent than we have been of late----or am I asking too much?

Bello with the win. Pitching was good again. In comes TB next.

WTF why do you have Wong bunting in that situation.  Makes no sense.

Nats pitcher was tough on our  bats. But Raffy saved the day.

Tough news forWinchowski.  He was a bullpen regular, but got optioned to make way forBello.