The Boston Red Sox lost first baseman Triston Casas to a devastating knee injury in May. The 25-year-old had struggled early in the season, but carried high expectations to return to his prior form in which he put up a 129 and 124 OPS+ in 2023 and 2024 respectively.

Despite surging as a collective in the month of July, sending their playoff chances soaring to 86.8 percent according to baseball reference, the Red Sox have struggled to get many individual stars to make an impression with the experts over at ESPN.

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Trevor Story delivers a clutch base hit in the ninth inning to give Boston a 2-1 victory over Miami.

Trevor Rogers pitched shutout ball for his first 6 1/3 innings and Gunnar Henderson ripped a pair of RBI extra-base hits to help the visiting Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox 6-1 in the opener of a two-game series on Monday night.

With Aroldis Chapman unavailable, Sunday began with a question for the Red Sox: Who would fill in as the closer? Righthander Greg Weissert allowed a tying home run to Dane Myers and lefthander Steven Matz gave up the go-ahead shot to Jakob Marsee in a brutal late-inning sequence set up by the goings-on from the day before.