TORONTO — Instant reactions from the Red Sox‘ 4-1 win over the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre on Tuesday:
1) The Red Sox (86-71) remain in the second AL Wild Card spot, one game ahead of the Tigers and one and a half games ahead of the Astros. Houston will play the Athletics at 10:05 p.m. eastern time.
2) Catcher Carlos Narváez’s two-run double in the sixth inning broke his 0-for-17 slump and put Boston ahead 4-1.
3) Starter Lucas Giolito labored, throwing 98 pitches in just 4 ⅔ innings.
Anyone can say sorry; not everyone can do sorry. Tonight, Josh Naylor went from a crucial potential rally-killing GIDP to a game-winning hit, and on the way, vaulted the Mariners into the playoffs for the first time since 2022. After missing the playoffs for 21 years, the Mariners will have made it twice during the first half-decade of the 2020s.
Pregame, I asked preview maven and pitching guru Jake Mailhot which of these three games against the Rockies to worry about losing, knowing that ERA’s are fake even when they are eye-wateringly bad like the Rockies, and he said tonight’s.
Alyssa Thomas celebrates with Satou Sabally during the fourth quarter of Game 2 on Tuesday night. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)David Berding via Getty Images
MINNEAPOLIS — Perhaps it was the games of UNO on the long plane rides around the country that made the difference as the Phoenix Mercury beat the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday night in Game 2 of the WNBA semifinals. Phoenix came back from being down 20 points to win 89-83 in overtime, which tied them for the third-largest comeback in WNBA postseason history and tied the series.
Chelsea player admits he’s never seen a team play like Lincoln before after scare
Chelsea got a huge scare last night and one Blues player admits he’s never seen a team play like Lincoln City before.
Chelsea got lucky, there are no two ways about it. They were so poor against a League One opposition, but the home side deserve a lot of credit too because they were fantastic and did not deserve to be the losing side last night.
Ace Tarik Skubal fell apart on the mound in Cleveland on Tuesday night and Detroit lost its seventh straight game, allowing the Guardians to catch the Tigers in the standings and secure the tiebreaker.
This is the Astros’ season in a nutshell.
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(Editors note: the Astros failed to catch an infield pop up that led to the first As run)
The Athletics opened the scoring in the bottom of the first on this play, and right then you saw the season melting….melting….melting away.
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The Astros did get the run back in the second —only one— after loading the bases with no outs. Cam Smith knocked in the run with a sacrifice fly.
Here’s how the As scored their second run.
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SEATTLE (AP) — The surging Seattle Mariners clinched a spot in the postseason Tuesday night, but they hope the real celebrations are yet to come.
Seattle earned the playoff berth with a dramatic 4-3 win over the Colorado Rockies after getting some help from the New York Yankees, who beat the Chicago White Sox earlier Tuesday evening. Josh Naylor provided the big hit, a bases-clearing double with two outs in the eighth inning after Seattle had generated little offense against the major league-worst Rockies.
The Mariners now have their eye on their first AL West title since 2001.
Tonight, the Kansas City Royals beat the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 8-4 at Angel Stadium. Even that comfortable score was a misnomer: this was a wire-to-wire dominating performance by Kansas City, who brought an 8-2 lead into the ninth inning.
The first inning of the game was a particular blast—provided you rooted for the boys in blue as opposed to the home team. Maikel Garcia worked a full count before doubling to left field, and Bobby Witt Jr. followed with a single that moved Garcia to third base.
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