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The Red Sox had the chance to play the role of the "spoiler" again on the final day of the regular season as they played the Yankees. How fitting to close out the regular season in a Red Sox vs Yankees contest.....and there was just as much excitement surrounding this game as there is in the Major Leagues! Earlier in the season, the Yankees defeated the Sox by a score of 7-6 in a game that ended early as the time-limit expired. So a chance to get even was on the mind of every player in Red on this day.
The early innings belonged to the Red Sox. We jumped out to an early lead in our first at-bat on the strength of hits by Spencer, Jake and Connor, then the Yankees made some spectacular plays and got out of the inning, leaving Connor stranded on third, but after two innings, it was 2-1 in favor of the Red Sox.
The Sox struggled through the middle innings and and fell behind 6-2 as the Yankees hit the ball extremely well. Defensively, the Sox played well, but the Yankee hits were hitting the holes as if they were running away from our gloves.
These Sox never gave up, and in the final inning, they put together a Rally that came up just a bit short, and the Yankees prevailed 8-5. On the strength of a great season and two wins over the Red Sox, the Yankees finished the season with just one loss, thus capturing the Regular Season title of "First Place".
The Red Sox had nothing to hang their heads about, as they finished 9-4 on the season and in Third Place, thus qualifying for the Championship bracket of the tournament. Over the next two weeks, the Red Sox will face the Athletics, the Yankees and the Nationals once again and hopefully will play well enough to get into the Championship game on Saturday, June 13. The impressive record of the regualr season is gone, and everybody starts fresh with a record of 0-0. Let's cheer on the Sox!
GO RED SOX!!!!
Next up: Wednesday, June 3 vs the Athletics at 6:00pm
Red Sox Come Back to Knock Off Undefeated Athletics!
The last time these two teams met, the end result was a 7-6 game that both teams could have won, but the Athletics prevailed. But on Saturday, the Red Sox pulled off a huge come from behind victory and gave the Athletics their first loss of the season.
The game started like it might be "all-Athletics" as they put 5 runs on the board in the first inning. But the Red Sox put together consistent hitting a solid defense over the next three innings to take a 9-5 lead going into the 5th inning. Hitting was solid for the third game in a row, so the Sox were able to score in each at-bat.
But the Athletics are an incredibly talented team, and it showed again in the 6th inning as they put 5 more runs on the scoreboard to take a 10-9 lead with only our last at bat to lean on.
Sam got things started in the 6th with an infield hit. Then David followed it up with another hit that caused a hurried throw, resulting in an overthrow of first. Both David and Sam moved up one base, giving us runners on Second and Third with no outs. That brought Connor to the plate. On the first pitch, Connor launched a deep fly ball to left-center field, clearing both outfielders and scoring both runners, giving the Red Sox a Walk-Off victory over an incredible Athletics squad.
These two teams will undoubtedly meet again in the playoffs, making for quite a rivalry in the weeks to come. Next up for the Sox: Nationals on Friday night, 5:30.
Red Sox make it two in a row against Cardinals
Early on Saturday it didn't look like there would be any baseball because of the rain, but the rain held off and provided just what the Red Sox needed to beat the Cardinals 10-4. With everybody healthy and available, the Red Sox were able to provide consistent hitting with excellent fielding to gain the victory.
The game ball went to Tyler Richter as he hit a double and a triple, and was responsible for knocking in or scoring 6 of the Red Sox 10 runs.
Next up for the Red Sox: 5/18 vs the Mets
Red Sox Even Record after 9-4 loss to Tigers
It was a tough Friday night game after a long week, and the Red Sox were not able to pull out a win against a good Tigers team. The Red Sox jumped ahead early, and stayed close with solid pitching from Connor Love, Spencer Chupik and Jay Sellers, but the bats fell silent when we needed timely hits as the Tigers took a 9-4 decision against the Sox.
Friday night 7:30 games are tough on 8 year olds, so it was no surprise these two teams each had a fair amount of mental mistakes. The Red Sox learned some lessons about hitting good pitches, swinging at good pitches and paying attention on EVERY play in this game, so we learned some things that will hopefully help us the rest of the season.
Next up: Red Sox vs Cubs on Monday night, 6:00.
