{"id":300163,"date":"2026-06-08T17:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300163\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:26:30","slug":"red-sox-head-to-tampa-bay-after-bronx-collapse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300163\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox head to Tampa Bay after Bronx Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Sox<\/a> had fewer than two innings to go Sunday afternoon while tied 1-1 and the game ended in a 6-1 loss. A split against the Yankees<\/a> isn\u2019t the worst possible outcome. Losing two of three would have been worse and the extra day of rest for Payton Tolle<\/a> is, if anything, a boon. There\u2019s a chance that the Red Sox have a better team when they play \u201cthird game\u201d, now scheduled for August 29. But the season doesn\u2019t stop. The Sox have three games against the Tamps Bay Rays. The first place Rays, now tied with the Yankees atop the AL East, thanks to that 8th inning comeback.<\/p>\n

All things considered the Sox are catching the Rays at the right time, they\u2019re just 3-7 over their last 10 games. Since ending a five-game winning streak they\u2019re 3-9. But it won\u2019t be a walk in the park.<\/p>\n

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Connelly Early<\/a> had a rough start to his outing against Baltimore<\/a> and gave up 4 runs in 5.1 innings. But he was also let down by his offense, which put up just 2 runs. Over his last five outings though he\u2019s got two 7.0 inning shutouts. Including against the Rays. On May 8th he held them scoreless for 7.0 innings while striking out 8. Ian Seymour<\/a> is facing him as an opener, which he\u2019s done once this season. Normally a middle reliever, he\u2019s likely to stick around for an inning or two at most. Against the Marlins, Jesse Scholtens<\/a> was the bulk reliever but he\u2019s now on the IL.<\/p>\n

If Early can\u2019t act as the \u201cstopper\u201d tonight, Tuesday night features the man, the mustache, Payton Tolle. Tolle kept the Orioles scoreless for 6.0 innings last time out and has an extra day of rest. Plus the Red Sox road offense. When he faced Tampa<\/a> in May, he allowed 3 runs (1 earned) in 5.0 innings. This will be his second time facing a team a second time. It didn\u2019t go well with the Atlanta Braves<\/a> but don\u2019t count out Mass Pike just yet. Nick Martinez<\/a>, the Rays veteran addition, has been mostly lights out. Except for the last time out against the Tigers. Martinez allowed 6 runs in 4.0 innings. When he and Tolle dueled in May he held the Sox to just a single run at Fenway Park for 5.2 innings.<\/p>\n

Wednesday is day baseball and a tall order. The likely starter replacing Brayan Bello<\/a> is Jake Bennett. The southpaw made two starts earlier this season and went back down to AAA. In Worcester this year he has a 1.60 ERA in 39.1 innings. He\u2019ll be opposed by Drew Rasmussen<\/a>. He didn\u2019t face Boston<\/a> in Fenway. Rasmussen has two \u201cbad\u201d starts on the year. He gave up 4 runs in 3.2 innings to the Pirates in April and 5 runs in 4.0 innings to the Angels at the end of May. He missed large parts of the 2023 and 2024 seasons so the Rays want to keep him healthy on the mound. Even in an All Star season in 2025 his outings against the Red Sox were 2.0 and 3.0 innings. He only gave up 3 runs across those outings but the Rays did lose both games.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> has hit 14 home runs.<\/p>\n

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Yandy Diaz<\/a> and Jonathan Aranda<\/a> have 11 homers each.<\/p>\n

Chandler Simpson<\/a> has stolen 14 bases this year but has been caught a league-leading 8 times.<\/p>\n

Probable Pitching Matchups<\/p>\n

Monday, June 8: Connelly Early (3.26 ERA \/ 4.63 FIP) vs. Ian Seymour (5.23 ERA \/ 3.65 FIP)<\/p>\n

Tuesday, June 9: Payton Tolle (2.28 ERA \/ 2.66 FIP) vs. Payton Tolle (Nick Martinez (2.29 ERA \/ 2.66 FIP)<\/p>\n

Wednesday, June 10: TBD (\u2014 ERA \/ \u2014 FIP) vs. Drew Rasmussen (3.00 ERA \/ 3.33FIP)<\/p>\n

When\/Where to Watch<\/p>\n

Monday, June 8: 6:40 PM ET on NESN<\/p>\n

Tuesday, June 9: 6:40 PM ET on NESN<\/p>\n

Wednesday, June 10: 1:10 PM ET on NESN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox had fewer than two innings to go Sunday afternoon while tied 1-1 and the game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[36855,20485,6647,126127,48421,3820,113494,84504,117484,108685,84503,84499,72086,114047,85680,135,3815,137,136,48412,84506,77437],"class_list":["post-300163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baltimore","tag-boston","tag-brayan-bello","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-connelly-early","tag-drew-rasmussen","tag-ian-seymour","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-junior-caminero","tag-nick-martinez","tag-payton-tolle","tag-red-sox","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-rays","tag-yandy-diaz","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}