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With only 22 games remaining in the regular season and a six-game lead over the Wild Card-chasing Rangers (themselves reeling from the injury loss of their ace, Nathan Eovaldi), the Sox almost certainly have a big enough cushion to survive the loss of Anthony. If you believe in the math behind WAR, then we're looking at only additional 1-2 losses - at the absolute most - as a result of Anthony's absence. Falling out of the postseason at this point would represent a monumental collapse.

With the calendar turning to September, it's my responsibility to remind you that the Red Sox are playing 6:45 pm home games during the week.

It's starting to look like the Sox have a postseason spot wrapped up. But we'll all lived through 2011, so we know it's not quite time to pop that champagne just yet. Entering play today, the Sox sit 3.5 games behind he Blue Jays for the Al East and a half game behind the Yankees for the first Wild Card. They have a 2.5 game cushion between themselves and the Mariners for the third Wild Card,

Here at Over The Monster, we ran into a bit of a "dark zone" with or ability to create polling during the website migration earlier this month. However, we did want to still run our quarterly approval polling before the calendar flips to September. So with that, let's check in with you, the Over The Monster community and gauge your opinion on how the Red Sox are doing across the organization.

Designated Hitter Masataka Yoshida continues to be a complete disaster for the Red Sox. So much so that I came very close to just posting last week's Mayor's Office again for this week's edition. But I have integrity (and also I'm not allowed to do that). Instead, I figured out that I could come at the same topic from a bit of a different angle.

How massive is this sweep victory at Camden Yards? It feels like it makes up for the two-game reverse sweep at Fenway Park during the Telethon last week. Thursday's matchup was definitely a battle, with Crochet finding himself in a few jams which he either got out of or got help to get out of. These are the games the Red Sox need to win to keep themselves in it.

Fitts' injury again leaves that spot in question. Manager Alex Cora confirmed they're not going to reverse course on Buehler's move to relief (link via Tim Healey of The Boston Globe). That means they'll need to bring someone up for Saturday's start against the Pirates. Cooper Criswell went on the minor league injured list last week. That leaves Kyle Harrison as the only healthy depth starter on the 40-man roster.

Hello and happy Monday, folks-an especially happy one on the heels of that wonderful series in the Bronx. We've got Baltimore on deck to begin the week. We travel to Camden Yards for a four-game set starting tonight at 6:35 EST, as our Red Sox will look to avenge the two-game mini sweep that unfolded at Fenway a week ago. Beautiful park, Camden is.

The Red Sox haven't had FanGraphs projected playoff odds this high, this late in the season since 2018 when they were 89-39 through 128 games. Tonight, they'll look to take the top Wild Card spot from the Yankees.

Ah, now that's a nice way to start a Friday. To be honest, though, that wasn't even my favorite part of last night's game. I'm not proud of this, but I absolutely delighted in Camilo Doval's disastrous relief appearance with David Hamilton on base. I'm genuinely not sure I've ever seen a pitcher display worse body language; someone hook that dude up with A-Rod's sports psychologist.

Sorting out draft orders ahead of the NFL season has been an annual (and often elaborate) tradition at the end of every summer, with the Red Sox chipping golf balls off the Green Monster last season in order to determine the draft order. This time around, the Red Sox called upon Varitek to be the primary determinant in their fantasy football fortunes. As captured on video by Tim Healey of The Boston Globe, Varitek mapped out Boston's draft order by taking batting practice at Fenway.

At this point in the season, you should know everything that you need to know about your team. Garrett Crochet had a start skipped in July, no problem. Greg Weissert and Brennan Bernardino needed to have their workload reduced in recent weeks due to overuse in the first half of the season, which is understandable. But by now, the extra time off around the

Now, after a perplexing 4-8 stretch since - including an uninspiring 4-3, 11-inning loss to the Orioles on Tuesday - Boston (68-59) is six games back of Toronto and in need of a major jolt following a third-straight setback. "Obviously, this last series wasn't our best baseball, our brand of baseball," veteran third baseman Alex Bregman said. "I feel like we'll work hard to correct that."

Trevor Rogers has emerged as a newfound ace since May 24, effectively shutting down strong offenses, leading to a remarkable run with a 2.45 FIP.