MassLive\u2019s Sean McAdam<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a singular focus, focused on getting himself healthy and get back to us. We want him in the lineup. I\u2019m going to be in touch with him frequently and see how he\u2019s doing with the hope that we get him back.\u201d<\/p>\nTracy said Anthony will also get a second opinion from Dr. Gary Lourie in Atlanta, a renowned hand specialist who serves as a partner at The Hand & Upper Extremity Center of Georgia and who has worked closely with the Atlanta Braves and Georgia Tech athletics for years.<\/p>\n
Anthony\u2019s injury has been among the biggest reasons why the Red Sox offense has fallen short of expectations over the first half. Last year as a rookie, Anthony emerged as one of the club\u2019s top hitters, batting .292 with eight home runs and an .859 OPS between his June 9 debut and his season-ending oblique injury in early September.<\/p>\n
The hope was he could provide similar or better production in his first full season, but instead Anthony was among the many Red Sox regulars who struggled out of the gate. He batted .229 with one homer and a .675 OPS in 30 games prior to the injury, and now he\u2019s been sidelined ever since.<\/p>\n
Setbacks keep coming for Casas<\/p>\n
Tracy provided another discouraging injury update over the weekend in Anaheim as well, telling reporters that first baseman Triston Casas suffered yet another setback and has been shut down from hitting due to a wrist issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a little wrist hiccup the other day,\u201d Tracy said, per McAdam. \u201cHe\u2019s gone through a lot, between the knee, then he had a little hamstring flareup, obviously the oblique and he\u2019s come back from that and now there\u2019s a wrist that\u2019s popped up. We\u2019ll keep an eye and once he\u2019s able to, keep progressing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Casas hasn\u2019t appeared in a game since suffering a ruptured patellar tendon running to first base on May 2, 2025. The first baseman progressed to a point where he was swinging regularly and hitting off of a machine, but that\u2019s been put on pause for now.<\/p>\n
Maintain momentum?<\/p>\n
Two weeks ago, when the Red Sox lost two out of three to the lowly Colorado Rockies to fall a season-low 14 games below .500, there was no reason to believe a change in the team\u2019s fortunes was around the corner.<\/p>\n
Since then the Red Sox have gone 8-2 with sweeps against the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels. Even with a disappointing series loss to the Washington Nationals sandwiched in between, this has been by far the best stretch of the season for the Red Sox.<\/p>\n
Can they keep it up?<\/p>\n
The Red Sox will finish the first half with two more winnable series, first facing the White Sox (47-42) at Rate Field before wrapping up their road trip with three games against the Mets (37-53 entering Monday). Standing at 40-48, the Red Sox still have a lot of ground to make up, but two more series wins heading into the All-Star break would at least put the club in a spot where selling at the trade deadline might not be such an obvious call.<\/p>\n
At the very least the club has found a way to keep things interesting heading into July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long ago it wasn\u2019t clear how Patrick Sandoval was going to fit into the Red Sox pitching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,5172,36543,49841,4,14123,3973,90,89,2543,793,1587,1946,58600],"class_list":["post-745363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-brayan-bello","tag-connelly-early","tag-jake-bennett","tag-mlb","tag-patrick-sandoval","tag-payton-tolle","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox","tag-roman-anthony","tag-sonny-gray","tag-triston-casas","tag-tyler-uberstine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116878021970211824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745363","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=745363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}