{"id":12956,"date":"2025-07-22T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12956\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:41:18","slug":"red-sox-lose-series-opener-to-phillies-in-historically-bizarre-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12956\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Lose Series Opener To Phillies In Historically Bizarre Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only two games in MLB history have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/offsportsplace\/status\/1947470162224959550\" rel=\"nofollow\">ended on a catcher\u2019s interference call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first was more than 50 years ago on Aug. 1, 1971, in a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n<p>The second was on Monday night, when the Boston Red Sox suffered a 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.<\/p>\n<p>The walk-off catcher\u2019s interference happened after Jordan Hicks loaded the bases with nobody out in the bottom of the 10th inning. With the count at 1-2 on Edmundo Sosa, Hicks threw a slider off the plate that Sosa attempted to swing at.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the Red Sox, Sosa\u2019s bat <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarnHasSpoken2\/status\/1947468165501665678\" rel=\"nofollow\">struck the glove of catcher Carlos Narv\u00e1ez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The pitch was called a ball by home plate umpire Quinn Wolcott, but Phillies manager Rob Thomson challenged it. After a replay review, the call on the field was overturned and changed to catcher\u2019s interference, automatically awarding Sosa first base.<\/p>\n<p>That forced in the winning run, sending Boston to a bizarre and frustrating 3-2 defeat. It was the team\u2019s seventh catcher\u2019s interference this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JustinmTurpin\/status\/1947473426685563385\" rel=\"nofollow\">which leads MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fluky ending capped a tense game that featured dominant pitching performances on both sides. Walker Buehler tossed seven innings of two-run ball for the Red Sox, while Zack Wheeler struck out 10 over six strong innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Boston had its chances, but ultimately failed to deliver the big hit, going 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and leaving eight men on base.<\/p>\n<p>The loss continues a concerning trend for the Red Sox, who are now 5-10 in extra-innings games this year, including 0-7 on the road. They\u2019ve struggled in one-run games as well, going 12-20.<\/p>\n<p>Boston has lost three of its four games since the All-Star Break as its bats have gone cold, scoring just nine runs during that stretch. The Red Sox will try to bounce back on Tuesday night behind Richard Fitts (1-3, 4.28 ERA), who will face Cristopher S\u00e1nchez (8-2, 2.50 ERA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only two games in MLB history have ended on a catcher\u2019s interference call. The first was more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,14685,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-12956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-carlos-narvaez","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}