The 2025 Red Sox have transformed from a mediocre club into a legitimate pennant contender, with an established young core, an acquired ace, and strong clubhouse cohesion. The front office has struggled with the final step of removing well-liked but underperforming players from the everyday roster, allowing poor on-field results to persist. That reluctance produced a game where Walker Buehler walked four batters in four innings, Abraham Toro went 0-5 and hit into a tenth-inning double play, and Masataka Yoshida struck out three times including with the bases loaded. A puzzling baserunning decision left Nate Eaton at third on a deep fly to center in the 11th, missing an opportunity to tie the game, and the front office favored continuity over a bolder roster move last month.
At the core of the 2025 Red Sox story is a team trying to make the transformation from underwhelming, mediocre ballclub where games in August and September don't really matter, to legit pennant contender where fans hang on every pitch down the stretch - And for the most part, they've done this pretty well. They've got their young core established, they've acquired an ace, and the group seems to genuinely like and fight for one another.
When you don't do that, you get games like tonight. You get Walker Buehler hanging around in the rotation and walking four guys in four innings of work and once again taxing the bullpen. You get Abraham Toro going 0-5 with two strikeouts and hitting into a crippling double play in the tenth inning. You get Masataka Yoshida going 0-4 with three strike outs including one with the bases loaded in the eighth inning.
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