{"id":658880,"date":"2026-04-02T14:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658880\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:07:13","slug":"red-sox-minor-lines-an-improbable-comeback-for-the-woosox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658880\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Minor Lines: An improbable comeback for the WooSox"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Red Sox were losing to the Astros, the WooSox were in St. Paul for a 2:10 PM first pitch following Tuesday\u2019s 19-3 rout of the Saints (Twins<\/a> AAA). Jack Anderson fell into a 4-0 deficit in the third inning via a grand slam that put St. Paul\u2019s win expectation at 88%, but the bullpen gave the team the opportunity to catch up, as the Saints had just one runner reach third after Anderson\u2019s afternoon ended in the fourth, where Tyler Samaniego promptly slammed the door after giving up two walks.<\/p>\n

The Woosox came back from 4-0 gradually. After a Tsung-Che Cheng home run, Worcester started the seventh inning still down 4-1. But Nick Sogard (who\u2019s OPS remains above 1.000 in the young season) and Braiden Ward drew walks, and were both advanced by Mikey Romero\u2019s third hit of the afternoon. Ward eventually scored via a Kristian Campbell sac fly to make it a 4-2 game. Matt Thaiss had a ground-rule double RBI to cut St. Paul\u2019s lead in half, and greatly increase the team\u2019s WPE from the original 23% up to 40$%. (The 2026 Red Sox could never\u2026 or at least not this early in the season!)<\/p>\n

While the top half of the lineup came through for the lion\u2019s share of Worcester\u2019s offensive activity on Tuesday, Wednesday\u2019s contributions were a little more concentrated near the bottom of the lineup. In the six hole, Cheng had two other hits in additio nto his homer, including one that kept the game moving in the ninth. His sac fly got the game to Matt Thaiss, who would play hero. On Mickey Gasper\u2019s afternoon off from mashing in the early going, the former Rays catcher notched his third hit, which scores Matt Lloyd for what would be end up as the game-winning run.<\/p>\n

Wyatt Olds got the win with a gutsy 36-pitch, six-out relief appearance, pitching a flawless ninth after gaining the lead after initially getting into some trouble in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Have a happy Thursday, and, for just a day, enjoy watching baseball that doesn\u2019t have us cussing at our televisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Red Sox were losing to the Astros, the WooSox were in St. Paul for a 2:10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,1195,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-658880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-red-sox-prospects","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}