{"id":91449,"date":"2025-06-09T18:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T18:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/91449\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T18:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T18:20:13","slug":"series-preview-tampa-bay-rays-at-boston-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/91449\/","title":{"rendered":"Series Preview: Tampa Bay Rays at Boston Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a miserable May the Red Sox<\/a> move into mid-June playing about .500. Which won\u2019t help get them back on track but also is better than continuing to dig a deeper hole. Campbell looks better. So does Story.<\/p>\n

Sandwiched in between two series against the Yankees<\/a>, the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> visit Boston. The Rays, at 35-30 have moved into second place in the AL East and control a Wild Card if the season ended today. Boston, meanwhile\u2026has some work to do. But there\u2019s a lot of baseball left to play.<\/p>\n

There is a chance of rain on Monday and Tuesday so will these games happen or be delayed? Maybe!<\/p>\n

The Rays are rolling out, possibly, kinda, the weak part of their rotation over this series. It still looks better than say a trio of Giolitos but what can you do?<\/p>\n

Shane Baz has given up three runs in three of his last five starts. The other two starts saw him yield five runs and one run. The problem? He\u2019s really only going five innings a start. So he doesn\u2019t get time to overcome a manageable number of runs allowed. This is where the Sox need to do what the Angels did to them last week: score early. <\/p>\n

Ryan Pepiot and Lucas Giolito? Well, hope Bello goes deep Monday so the \u2018pen is rested. <\/p>\n

Zack Littell doesn\u2019t really strike people out\u2026just 52 Ks in 80 innings. Will his lack of strikeout stuff or the Red Sox tendency to go down by way of the K win out?<\/p>\n

New faces \u2014 both to the roster and success \u2014 are leading the way for Tampa this year. Their best hitter? Jonathan Aranda slashing .321\/.409\/.495. While he\u2019s in his fourth season, Aranda has really stepped it up. He\u2019s joined by 21-year-old Junior Caminero (.262\/.294\/.519) as the power of the lineup.<\/p>\n

Probable Pitching Matchups<\/p>\n

Monday June 9: Shane Baz (4.96 ERA \/ 5.01 FIP) vs. Brayan Bello (3.91 ERA \/ 4.81 FIP)<\/p>\n

Tuesday June 10: Ryan Pepiot (3.20 ERA \/ 4.34 FIP) vs. Lucas Giolito (6.42 ERA \/ 6.94 FIP)<\/p>\n

Wednesday June 11: Zack Littell (3.68 ERA \/ 5.04 FIP) vs. Walker Buehler (5.18 ERA \/ 5.29 FIP)<\/p>\n

When\/Where to Watch<\/p>\n

Monday June 9: 7:10 PM ET on NESN<\/p>\n

Tuesday June 10: 7:10 PM ET on NESN<\/p>\n

Wednesday June 11: 7:10 PM ET on NESN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a miserable May the Red Sox move into mid-June playing about .500. Which won\u2019t help get them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[422,5,296,141,48,2542,439,181,4,1321,1320,3227,297,285,89,5558,2543,1646,286,295,173],"class_list":{"0":"post-91449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bay","11":"tag-boston","12":"tag-boston-red-sox","13":"tag-bostonredsox","14":"tag-exclude-from-stn-video","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-monster","18":"tag-over","19":"tag-preview","20":"tag-rays","21":"tag-red","22":"tag-red-sox","23":"tag-red_sox_news","24":"tag-redsox","25":"tag-series","26":"tag-sox","27":"tag-tampa","28":"tag-the"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114654794542799915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91449","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=91449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}