{"id":801638,"date":"2026-09-10T17:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/801638\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:57:33","slug":"red-sox-news-links-willson-contreras-to-begin-rehab-assignment-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/801638\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox News & Links: Willson Contreras to begin rehab assignment this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

No need to freak-out about Adley Rutschman missing last night\u2019s game, the second game in a row he\u2019s missed: it was a scheduled night-off and the team plans on getting him back into the lineup tomorrow. He did, however, receive a cortisone injection for his balky elbow, but the team says you shouldn\u2019t freak out about that either. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t an injection like, \u2018Oh, something went wrong.\u2019\u201d said Chad Tracy. \u201cIt was an injection that was like, \u2018We got him through with the days off [earlier].\u2019 And looking at, as we came home, we knew he was going to be out on Tuesday anyway. And timing-wise, we were looking for a window to do that — to get him over the hump.\u201d (Ian Browne, MLB.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

So it\u2019s great that they\u2019re not giving something went wrong injections to Adley, who isn\u2019t the only player who missed last night\u2019s game with a sore body part. Eli White was also out of the lineup after crashing into the centerfield fence attempting to make a catch on Tuesday night. \u201cHe\u2019s sore, very sore,\u201d said Tracy. \u201cHis foot jammed into that garage door when he went up (to attempt to make the catch) and that foot shoved into (the door). He\u2019s out. He\u2019s going to go through some imaging today \u2014 maybe tonight or maybe (Thursday) morning, just to see exactly what\u2019s going on there.\u201d (Sean McAdam, MassLive)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sox can afford to give a few days off to Rutschman. And, thankfully, the cavalry is coming. Ceddanne Rafaela is expected to come off the IL on Tuesday, while Willson Contreras will play in a minor league rehab game this weekend with Portland. \u201cHe just wants to get on his feet,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cHe\u2019s been down for a while, and just to get on his feet and actually see some pitching, move around at first base, maybe get on base.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Rutschman does miss any more time, at least the Sox have the resurgent bat of Mickey Gasper to slot into the lineup. Gasper\u2019s unprecedented late-season hot streak is one of the coolest stories of the year. What kind of outlook has led to it? \u201cI would describe it as almost delusional. Seriously,\u201d said Steve Lomasney, who coached Gasper as a high schooler. \u201cYou have to be that way: \u2018I\u2019m going to compete as hard as I possibly can, and I\u2019m never going to lose because my work ethic is going to be better than the other guys.\u2019 And that\u2019s how Mickey approaches things.\u201d (Alex Speier, Boston Globe)<\/a><\/p>\n

Sonny Grey\u2019s success this year hasn\u2019t completely come out of nowhere the way Gasper has, but it is noteworthy that he\u2019s having arguably the best season of his career at age 36. But perhaps it\u2019s not all that surprising. \u201cGray is renowned for his meticulous work between starts \u2014 the precision with which he practices his delivery, the journaling he does about every facet of each workday, the care he puts into what he eats, the commitment to preparation.\u201d (Alex Speier, Boston Globe)<\/a><\/p>\n

Roman Anthony is at the complete opposite end of the career spectrum as Gray. As such, he\u2019s still working out the mental aspect of the game. Mired in a mini slump recently, he tried to reframe approach at the plate heading into last night\u2019s game. \u201cJust gotta get back to that leadoff mentality role,\u201d Anthony said. \u201cI think the swings sometimes get a little bit hard and maybe try to do too much at times. So for me, just a constant work in progress to get back into that leadoff hitter mode and get back to playing the brand of baseball that we know how to play best and just pass it on to the next guy.\u201d (Christopher Smith, MassLive)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No need to freak-out about Adley Rutschman missing last night\u2019s game, the second game in a row he\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,15409,2543],"class_list":["post-801638","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-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-red-sox-news","tag-redsox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117248042151046339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801638","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=801638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}