Red Sox vs Guardians Series Review

Ouch

As always, let us start with a quote from MLB Insider Matt Rosen

“At least we still have the Fenway experience.”

Brett Watch

Blogs- 1

Tweets- 13

Overall Takeaway

Ain’t much to say in this series. I feel like it was depressing from the first pitch on Patriots Day. More than anything I am just frustrated with Red Sox Nation on Twitter. It is totally okay to be frustrated and annoyed at the state of the team, I can be negative sometimes as well. But everytime I go on Twitter now it is just “personalities” and writers tearing down the team. Not fun. Hoping for a better weekend.

Game 1- Guardians 6-0

Game 2- Guardians 10-7

Game 3- Red Sox 2-0

Game 4- Guardians 5-4

What I Loved

• Tanner Houck

  • Really the only true bright spot to come out of this series. His complete game was the first since 2022 and prior to that it was 2019. Hand up I never loved the fact that they made him a starter. But it is impossible to deny he is absoultely killing it and that start was one of the best this season across the MLB.

• Kutter Crawford

  • He has a 0.42 ERA. What else can the guy do? Next goal is to go six innings!

• Wong and McGuire

  • Combined they have compiled 0.6 WAR so far this season. I view them as one person, so this is a huge jump start compared to last year where they finished with a 1.9 WAR.

What I Was “Mid” About

• Masataka Yoshida

  • With every fiber of my being, I want to keep him in the “mid” to loved category. He was 0-10 this series and didn’t even play in the last two games. I hope this weekend will change things.

• Red Sox Defense

  • Four errors over four games.

  • Has been better.

  • Still should be defenestrated.

What I Didn’t Love

• Devers, Whitlock, and O’Neil Injuries

  • Whitlock and O’Neil have both hit the IL. At this point, Devers is just getting an MRI. He can’t catch a break, and I feel that a reset is needed. The fact that he didn’t leave the game on Monday after colliding with O’Neil was insane, and he looked dead. I truly hope O’Neil does not turn into this year’s Adam Duvall. We saw what happened last year with Anthony Rizzo and his concussion.

• Everything that happened Monday.

  • No words are needed.

• Thursday’s Lineup

  • Ouch