Red Sox Face Pressure After Loss To Tampa Bay Rays

The Boston Red Sox fell to the Tampa Bay Rays 7-3 on Sunday night, September 21st. With 6 games remaining in the season, the Magic Number for the Red Sox to make the playoffs is 6 games.

Connelly Early started for the Red Sox and allowed 3 runs in the 1st inning. He labored thru 4.0 innings, allowing 3 hits and 3 runs, striking out 4 and walking 2.

Alex Bregman was 2-3 with a run batted in.

Ceddanne Rafaela was 1-4 with a double and run batted in.

Masataka Yoshida was 2-5. Romy Gonzalez was 2-2 with a double.

Wilyer Abreu, who was reinstated from the injured list before the game was 0-4, striking out 4 .

Boston struck out 14 times.

Check out the highlights of the game.

Boston has 6 games remaining in the season, with a 1 game lead over both the Guardians and Astros. Boston owns the 2nd Wild Card spot. The Red Sox own the tie-breaker against both the Guardians and Astros. Boston has 3 games at Toronto (Tuesday-Thursday) and then finish the season at home with 3 games against the Detroit Tigers (Friday-Sunday)

Boston plays at Toronto Tuesday night, with the pregame starting at 6:07 and 1st pitch at 7:07 on AM 1370 WDEA.