It was the franchise's 10,000th regular season victory. Boston is the second American League team and the tenth major league team to reach 10,000 wins. The franchise has 108 postseason wins.
Here are the franchises with more than 5,000 wins, as of a few days ago.
Also: The second-longest World Series championship drought is 56 years, held by the Brewers and Padres. . . . Weird.
Blue Jays 21 10
Rays 19 12
Orioles 18 13
Red Sox 16 14
Yankees 13 19
How good it is.
Greg Joyce, Post, July 4, 2025:
In the Yankees' ideal world, you could walk into their clubhouse on any given day during the 162-game schedule and not know whether they are flying high or in a brutal slump.
It is a mindset shared by captain Aaron Judge and manager Aaron Boone, who do not believe in riding the emotional roller coaster of a season. It is why you will rarely see them feeling too good about themselves after big wins or long winning streaks. And it is why they will stick to a similar script after gut punches like Wednesday’s 11-9 loss to the Blue Jays — falling for the 13th time in 19 games — no matter how much it grates the fanbase.
"Any loss is brutal," said Judge, who is never all that interested in acknowledging some being tougher than others, even on a night when the Yankees fought all the way back from an 8-0 deficit . . . only to ultimately still lose.
"I trust this group so much," Boone said. "Even what we're going through right now . . . [the] stretch we're in . . . It's really hard to tell day by day [what's going on] . . . "
Denying reality . . . that's the one thing the Yankees have always managed to do exceptionally well.
Greg Joyce, Post, July 4, 2025:
The Yankees have lost 14 of their last 20 games and are tied with the Rays for second place in the division, but Boone's message was one projecting confidence amid choppy waters.
[On Thursday] the Yankees went 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position, making it 9-for-50 across the four [losses].
Add in news of a high-grade oblique strain to Fernando Cruz and Clarke Schmidt headed for an MRI tube Friday because of forearm tightness, and the four-game set was something of a test to determine where rock bottom actually is.
"It sucks when you get your ass kicked in a division-rival series, on the road," Boone said. "But we're ready-made for this . . . We need to do better. . . . We will stick together . . . This will make us stronger . . . I know this group. . . . I believe in our process. . . . Bring it on. You got to embrace the challenging times . . . I know these guys will handle it."
Armed with his trusty Cliche Hose, Boone is a fuckin artist.
Whatever. The rest of us can look at the standings, where there is clear, unmistakable, and wonderful evidence the MFY have been outright shitting the bed for the last five weeks.
Wilyer Abreu led off the bottom of the fifth with an inside-the-park home run. Three innings later, he donged the first grand slam of his career. The Red Sox rode a seven-run first inning to a 13-6 victory.
Abreu became only the sixth player to hit an inside-the-park home run and a grand slam in a game -- and the first player to do it in 67 years. The others:
June 5, 1890 - Jocko Fields, Pittsburgh Burghers (Players League)
July 4, 1923 (G1) - Everett Scott, Yankees
August 4, 1930 - Charlie Gehringer, Tigers
July 4, 1939 (G2) - Jim Tabor, Red Sox*
August 3, 1958 (G1) - Roger Maris, KC Athletics
*: Back on Independence Day in 1939, the Red Sox pounded out 35 hits and 35 runs, battering the hapless Philadelphia Athletics 17-7 and 18-12. Tabor had a great week that afternoon: 6-for-9, double, four home runs (two grand slams), seven runs scored, 11 RBI, and a walk. The 19 total bases boosted his slugging from .419 to .483!
Ian Browne reports: "It was the first inside-the-parker for a Red Sox player since Eduardo Núnéz in Alex Cora's first game as Boston's manager on March 29, 2018 (JoS), at Tropicana Field against the Rays. It was also the first inside-the-park homer for a Boston player at Fenway since Jacoby Ellsbury on Sept. 19, 2011 (JoS), vs. the Orioles."
Abreu is also the first Red Sox player with an inside-the-park and over-the-fence home run in the same game since Pokey Reese (May 8, 2004). [Hey, lady!!! I was at that game!]
Asked which home run was more satisfying, Abreu said, "Obviously the inside-the-parker, but you get tired from it. So for me if you hit the ball and just jog around the bases [for a homer], that's better."
The Red Sox have a 10-5 record in the month of June, with five of those 10 victories against the Yankees.
June 7: Red Sox 10, MFY 7
June 8: Red Sox 11, MFY 7
June 13: Red Sox 2, MFY 1 (10)
June 14: Red Sox 4, MFY 3
June 15: Red Sox 2, MFY 0
The 2-0 shutout on Father's Day turned the MFY bats into wet noodles. With subsequent losses to the Angels, 1-0 (11) and 4-0, the Yankees have not scored a run in their last 29 innings. As you can see below, that's a grand total of four runs in their last five games (all losses, of course), covering 48 innings. Also, in all five games, the MFY were unable to score a run in the first six innings.
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The Boston Red Sox traded Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants on Sunday in exchange for pitchers Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison and a pair of prospects (outfielder James Tibbs III and pitcher Jose Bello). The teams had been discussing a Devers deal for the past few weeks.
Devers, in his ninth season with the club, had been the last member of the 2018 World Champions still in a Boston uniform. He's also in the second year of a 10-year, $313.5 million contract.
Initial news of the trade stunned the entire SoSH membership like a torpedo bat to the back of the noggin. I mean every. single. poster. Completely out of the blue. I have to assume Devers's reluctance/refusal to move to first base was a factor to some extent. As Ian Browne (mlb.com) reports:
[T]hings got turbulent between Devers and the Red Sox this past Spring Training . . .
Devers, a below-average defender according to the error column and the metrics, had played third base his entire career. He initially balked at the idea of transitioning to DH [after Alex Bregman was signed] in meetings with the Red Sox and in comments to the media before he reluctantly agreed to the arrangement in March. . . .
[A]nother storm cloud arrived when first baseman Triston Casas ruptured his left patellar tendon on May 2 and was lost for the season.
Searching for potential solutions at first base, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow asked Devers if he would consider playing the position. Devers declined.
Devers also reportedly refused (on several occasions) to take grounders at third and first during spring training. It's possible Devers asked to be traded.
W - L Paul H. 95-67 Jeff M. 94-68 Ben B. 93-69 Ray P. 93-69 Matt B. 92-70 Nick R. 92-70 David F. 91-71 Warren S. 90-72 Rich G. 89-73 Jacob L. 89-73 Michael B. 89-73 Michael G. 89-73 Brett H. 88-74 Allan W. 87-75 John G. 84-78We have everything covered from 88 to 95 wins (not counting my pick).
First, the breakdown of predictions for the American League pennant: Texas 11, Red Sox 9, Orioles 6, Yankees 3, Royals 2, Mariners 1, Astros 1. (The Athletic notes: "All of those Red Sox votes, by the way, came from writers based outside of Boston.")
National League Champs: Dodgers 16, Atlanta 5, Mets 5, Phillies 4, Diamondbacks 2, Padres 1. (Sorry, Central Division.)
World Series Winner: Dodgers 14, Red Sox 4, Atlanta 3, Phillies 3, Diamondbacks 2, Mets 2, Orioles 1, Texas 1, Mariners 1, Padres 1, Yankees 1.
Who were these four bold and insightful prognosticators?
Andrew Baggarly: Red Sox over MetsAnd the five slightly less bold crystal-ball gazers:
Dennis Lin: Red Sox over Dodgers
Eno Sarris: Red Sox over Atlanta
Cody Stavenhagen: Red Sox over Mets
Brittany Ghiroli: Mets over Red SoxOther predictions:
Zack Meisel: Phillies over Red Sox
Chandler Rome: Phillies over Red Sox
Will Sammon: Dodgers over Red Sox
Sahadev Sharma: Padres over Red Sox
AL Cy Young: Garrett Crochet 10, Logan Gilbert 8, Tarik Skubal 8 . . .AL MVP: Bobby Witt Jr. 18, Aaron Judge 5, Gunnar Henderson 3 . . .AL ROY: Jackson Jobe 14, Kristian Campbell 6 . . . Marcelo Mayer 1, Roman Anthony 1 . . .
NL MVP: Shohei Ohtani 18, Mookie Betts 5, Juan Soto 3 . . .
NL Cy Young: Zack Wheeler 14, Paul Skenes 12, Corbin Burnes 4 . . .
NL ROY: Roki Sasaki 15, Dylan Crews 9 . . .
ESPN wonders if the Yankees can "bounce back" from their historic World Series choke last October? (Boone: "I feel like it's going to sting forever." I certainly hope so.) In case you don't recall all of the wonderful details . . . and there were many . . . It. Was. Super. Fucking. Awesome. LOL!
All six of the Boston Globe writers picked the Red Sox to make the postseason for the first time since 2021, with three of them predicting an AL East title for the first time since 2018. But how far will the Hub Hose go?
Peter Abraham: Red Sox win East; lose ALCS G7 to Tigers; MFY miss postseason.
Chad Finn: Red Sox win East; lose ALCS to Texas.
Dan Shaughnessy: Red Sox win East. ["Will [John Henry] like me now?" . . . I wouldn't wager even a fucking dime on that.]
Alex Speier, Tara Sullivan, and Christopher L. Gasper all predict the Red Sox will win a wild card spot but not make it to the ALCS. Speier says the team is finally "at a point where they are rightly expected to reach the playoffs . . . their core talent is good enough to get to October".
Five Globers pick the Dodgers to repeat as World Series champions, defeating the Tigers (PA), Guardians (CLG), Orioles (DS), Royals (AS), Texas (CF)). TS goes with Mets over Texas.
CHB says, if his pick proves true, it would be "[r]evenge for the 1966 World Series". Would it, Dan, really? 59 years later?
Dan was 13 during that WS. He'll be seventy-fucking-two this summer. One week after the Orioles finished sweeping the Dodgers (with three consecutive shutouts), I celebrated my third birthday.
What I'm trying to say is, that was a long fucking time ago. Shohei Ohtani is in his early 30s. Were his parents even born by 1966? . . . It turns out they were, but it's close. An article from late 2017 states his father is 55 and his mother is 54, so they were born in 1962 and 1963, respectively.)
I learned the following from Yahoo Sports' five "MLB experts" — Jake Mintz, Jordan Shusterman, Russell Dorsey, Jack Baer and Jason Owens:
Three pick the Red Sox to win the AL East, with the other two tagging the Orioles (and picking Boston as a wild card team). All five pick the Yankees to win a wild card spot.
Dorsey picks the Red Sox to win the AL pennant, but lose the WS to the Dodgers. WS winners: Dodgers (3), Atlanta (1), and Phillies (1).
Crochet gets a Cy Young nod. Kristian Campbell and Roman Anthony get picked as ROY. Trevor Story is a pick for AL Comeback Player.
The five (in the order listed above) weigh in on the Dodgers' win total (108-109-105-104-103) and Ohtani HRs (45-44-43-36-45).
Four of the five say the Mets will finish with a better record than the Yankees. Shusterman rejects the schadenfreude.
Both Athlon and Lindy's pre-season magazines pick the Red Sox for third in the AL East.
The Red Sox will win the AL East, according to four of the five CBS Sports scribes. The Yankees get one pick for second place, and four picks for third.
Mike Axisa: Any margin of error the Yankees had coming into 2025 is gone now that they've lost Gerrit Cole for the year, Luis Gil for at least two months, and Giancarlo Stanton for who knows how long. . . . The Red Sox are the division's most improved team thanks to Garrett Crochet and Alex Bregman, and I love their offense. They have contact, they have power, they have speed. And also an excellent farm system they can use to upscale their roster . . .
Kate Feldman: I liked the Yankees' offseason. . . . But they needed to do more. Max Fried was a good pickup but all of a sudden he needs to be an ace with Gerrit Cole out for the year. They still don't have a third baseman. Are we supposed to think Aaron Judge can just carry an entire offense again? The Red Sox opened the winter by trading for Garrett Crochet and finished it by signing Alex Bregman. . . .
Dayn Perry: [T]he Red Sox have the most balanced roster and increasing levels of upside as the impressive young talent trickles in. I don't feel strongly about this pick, though. If the O's had done anything more to address the rotation, they'd be my easy pick here.
Matt Snyder: I think this is the strongest division in baseball, top to bottom. I thought my Red Sox pick would be an outlier, but instead several of us agree. I really like the look of their roster and they always seem to play above their heads anyway.
They do? Always?!?
Feldman picks Boston to win the AL pennant, but has them losing to the Mets. The other four WS picks are Dodgers (2) and Phillies (2).
I looked at SportsNet New York (SNY), because it's NY-based and has 14 contributors.
Red Sox: 7 division titles, 4 wild cards (picked by 11 of 14)
Yankees: 5 division titles, 9 wild cards (picked by all 14)
Six SNYers picked the Red Sox and Yankees to meet in the ALCS, because if both clubs are playing in October, how could you not? Fun Fact: All six picked the Red Sox to win the pennant!
ALCS: Red Sox win 8 of 9, Yankees win 1 of 8.
World Series: Red Sox win 2 of 8, Yankees lose 1 of 1.
Garrett Crochet got five picks as AL Cy Young and one person thought Rafael Devers would win AL MVP.
Mookie Malaise. Mookie Betts should be in the Dodgers' lineup today despite losing almost 20 pounds during a "long ordeal with a mystery illness". Betts is expected to be the Dodgers' shortstop this year (after playing right field and second base in previous seasons). Before his illness, Betts "had opened eyes in camp, showing a level of comfort at the position". Forget about playing all nine positions in one game, what about playing entire seasons at each position?
