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Red Sox's Caleb Durbin: Breaks cold spell, staying at 3B
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Durbin went 2-for-4 with a run scored in Sunday's 6-1 win over the Blue Jays.
Durbin had gone hitless in his last three games, but he broke through with a pair of base hits in the series finale to lift his average up to .237 on the season. The 26-year-old remained in the starting nine at third base, and interim manager Chad Tracy confirmed prior to the contest that Durbin is expected to remain at the hot corner while the Red Sox break in the newly acquired Curtis Mead primarily at second base when he joins the team Monday, per Gabrielle Starr of the Boston Herald. Durbin is expected to take more reps at second base and shortstop as part of his pregame work, but the Red Sox have been pleased with how he's performed defensively at third base during his first season in Boston.
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Red Sox's Curtis Mead: Added to active roster
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Mead was activated to the major-league roster by the Red Sox following Sunday's 6-1 win over Toronto.
Mead will make his debut with Boston on Monday as the team begins a four-game series on the road against the Athletics. The 25-year-old is expected to play second base primarily with his new squad, a spot where he's made 35 major-league starts before. Mead has posted a career-high .254 average with 17 home runs, 48 RBI, 49 runs scored and six stolen bases over 284 at-bats in 87 contests with the Nationals this season, and he's batting .367 since the beginning of July. Tsung-Che Cheng was optioned to Triple-A Worcester in a corresponding move.
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Red Sox's Tsung-Che Cheng: Sent down Sunday
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Cheng was optioned to Triple-A Worcester after Sunday's 6-1 win over the Blue Jays, Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com reports.
Cheng will head down to Triple-A to make room for Curtis Mead's activation ahead of Mead's debut with Boston on Monday. Cheng posted a .256 average with a double, five RBI and seven runs scored over 39 at-bats in 14 contests with the Red Sox following his promotion June 26, and he will likely get another shot with the big-league club relatively soon.
Red Sox's Ranger Suarez: Goes four innings in return
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Suarez didn't factor into the decision Sunday against the Blue Jays, allowing four hits and no walks across four scoreless innings. He struck out six.
Suarez was limited to 64 pitches in his first start since July 5, though the left-hander was sharp, as he held Toronto scoreless across four innings. Overall, Suarez is 4-3 with a 3.02 ERA, 1.15 WHIP and 103:26 K:BB across 18 starts (95.1 innings) this season. He's tentatively in line to face the Dodgers on the road his next time out.
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Red Sox's Andruw Monasterio: Drawing fourth straight start
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Monasterio will start at shortstop and bat eighth in Sunday's game against the Blue Jays.
Monasterio will head into Sunday's contest riding a seven-game hitting streak, during which he's gone 10-for-20 with seven extra-base hits, five RBI and three runs to bring his season-long slash line up to .250/.301/.442. He'll be making his fourth straight start at shortstop and appears to have supplanted Tsung-Che Cheng as the preferred option at the position, but Monasterio likely won't have a long leash as an everyday player before fading back into a utility role. Boston is expected to get Trevor Story (sports hernia) back from the injured list at some point in August, and everyday third baseman Caleb Durbin will begin taking part in pregame work at shortstop as well as second base in an effort to increase his versatility after the Red Sox acquired infielder Curtis Mead from the Nationals on Sunday.
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Red Sox's Tsung-Che Cheng: Losing reps to Monasterio
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Cheng is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Blue Jays.
Though he had typically occupied the strong side of a platoon at shortstop with Andruw Monasterio at shortstop since being called up from Triple-A Worcester on June 26, Cheng finds himself on the bench for a fourth straight matchup versus a right-hander (Kevin Gausman). Monasterio appears to have at least temporarily settled into a near-everyday role at the expense of Cheng, who has produced a lowly .256/.318/.282 slash line through his first 44 plate appearances with Boston.
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Red Sox's Anthony Seigler: On bench for series finale
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Seigler is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Blue Jays.
Romy Gonzalez will draw the start at second base in place of Seigler, who will soon face a new threat for playing time after the Red Sox acquired Curtis Mead from the Nationals on Sunday. Though Mead had primarily been used at third base and first base with Washington, interim manager Chad Tracy said that Mead will see most of his initial opportunities in Boston at the keystone. With a .774 OPS in 29 games with the big club this season, Seigler has performed well enough to maintain at least a semi-regular role. With that in mind, it wouldn't be surprising if Seigler and/or Mead ended up cutting into Masataka Yoshida's opportunities at designated hitter if the Red Sox intend to keep steady at-bats available for Seigler.
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Red Sox's Connor Wong: Resting up Sunday
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Wong is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Blue Jays.
Wong will take a seat for the series finale after he went 1-for-6 with four strikeouts while receiving turns behind the plate Friday and Saturday. Carlos Narvaez will get the nod at catcher Sunday.
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Red Sox's Curtis Mead: Joining team Monday, will play 2B
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Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy said that Mead will be activated ahead of Monday's series opener versus the Athletics and could see most of his reps at second base initially, Gabrielle Starr of the Boston Herald reports. "The cool thing was talking to all players involved, including Curtis, that the general response was '[I'll] play wherever you need me to.' So we got a good right-handed bat that looks like he's capable playing second," Tracy said of Mead, who was acquired in a trade with the Nationals on Sunday. "We'll start with that and keep eyes on it."
Mead has made 35 career big-league starts at second base, but just one has come this season, as the Nationals primarily deployed him at the corner-infield spots prior to trading him. With Willson Contreras entrenched at first base and the Red Sox keen on keeping Caleb Durbin at third base for the time being, Mead looks like he'll settle in primarily at the keystone to begin his tenure with his new organization. Boston has received solid production at second base from Anthony Seigler of late, but he may not be a major impediment to Mead, who had broken out this season with an .852 OPS to go with 17 home runs and six steals over 87 games in Washington.
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Red Sox's Marcelo Mayer: Hitting off tee
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Mayer (forearm) has progressed from dry swings to hitting off a tee, MLB.com reports.
Mayer has been sidelined since late June and is still without a firm timeline to return. He'll need to advance to facing live pitching and a rehab assignment before rejoining Boston's active roster.
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Red Sox's Ranger Suarez: Reinstated for Sunday's start
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The Red Sox activated Suarez (groin/illness) from the 15-day injured list to start Sunday's game against the Blue Jays, Gabrielle Starr of the Boston Herald reports.
The left-hander was originally poised to come off the injured list in the middle of last week, but an illness pushed back his return. Now fully recovered from the ailment and the groin strain that originally landed him on the IL, Suarez is ready to make his first big-league appearance since July 5. In five starts prior to that injury-shortened outing, the 30-year-old had a 2.10 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and 35:7 K:BB over 30 innings.
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Red Sox's Alec Gamboa: Sent back to Triple-A
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The Red Sox optioned Gamboa to Triple-A Worcester.
He'll give up his spot on the active roster to left-hander Ranger Suarez (groin/illness), who was reinstated ahead of his scheduled start Sunday versus the Blue Jays. Gamboa's latest stint in the majors lasted four days, with the lefty striking out seven and allowing one earned run on five hits and one walk across five innings between two relief appearances.
The Red Sox acquired Mead from the Nationals on Saturday in exchange for Connelly Early (elbow), Jeff Passan of ESPN.com reports.
The Red Sox have been looking for a bat to help lengthen their lineup, and they've opted to ship out a young starter in Early to address that need. The 25-year-old Mead has experienced a breakout season with Washington in 2026, slashing .256/.351/.505 with 17 homers, 48 RBI, 48 runs scored, six stolen bases and a 37:62 BB:K across 322 trips to the plate. It remains to be seen exactly who Boston plays where, but Mead and Caleb Durbin are likely to dominate the playing time between second and third base.
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Red Sox's Sonny Gray: One bad inning in second loss
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Gray (12-2) took the loss against the Blue Jays on Saturday, allowing five runs on 10 hits and no walks with three strikeouts over five innings.
All five runs came with two outs in the third inning, but Gray wasn't at his best all day, allowing 10 hard-hit balls despite generating an impressive 12 whiffs on 75 pitches. It was a rare clunker for the 36-year-old, who snapped a streak of nine straight quality starts while taking his first loss since April 14. He owns a 2.78 ERA, 1.16 WHIP and 93:28 K:BB across 106.2 innings this season and will aim to rebound in a road matchup with the Athletics next week.
Suarez (groin/illness) will be activated from the injured list to start Sunday's game against the Blue Jays, Mac Cerullo of the Boston Herald reports.
Originally scheduled to start Tuesday's game against Baltimore before falling ill, Suarez now seems to be fully healthy and ready to rejoin Boston's rotation after landing on the injured list due to a groin strain in early July. His first start back will come against a Toronto lineup that's been ice cold of late, posting just a .603 OPS across 18 games since the beginning of the month.
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