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RED SOX (87-75): Anthony DH, Rutschman C, Contreras 1B, Abreu RF, Rafaela CF, Sogard 2B, Duran LF, Story SS, Durbin 3B
Pitching: LHP Payton Tolle (9-6, 3.03 ERA)
YANKEES (93-68): Goldschmidt 1B, Rice DH, Ramos RF, Bellinger LF, Lombard Jr. SS, Rosario 3B, Volpe 3B, Jones CF, Wells C
Pitching: RHP Cam Schlittler (14-6, 1.95 ERA)
Time: 8 p.m. | TV, radio: NBC, Peacock, WEEI-FM 93.7
Red Sox vs. Schlittler: Wilyer Abreu 2-9, Willson Contreras 1-12, Jarren Duran 2-11, Caleb Durbin 2-9, Ceddanne Rafaela 4-11, Adley Rutschman 1-6, Nick Sogard 0-3, Trevor Story 0-3
Yankees vs. Tolle: Cody Bellinger 0-3, José Caballero 0-4, Jazz Chisholm Jr. 1-5, Paul Goldschmidt 0-3, Spencer Jones 1-2, Ben Rice 1-3, Amed Rosario 1-6, Ali Sánchez 0-2, Anthony Volpe 0-2, Austin Wells 0-2
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Mid 4: Yankees 1, Red Sox 0 — 9:20 p.m.
By Cam Kerry and Alex Speier
The Sox go down in order against Cam Schlittler, who continues to baffle the visitors.
Schlittler threw Willson Contreras six straight fastballs and Contreras didn’t swing once on the way to striking out looking.
End 3: Yankees 1, Red Sox 0 — 9:12 p.m.
By Cam Kerry
Payton Tolle looks back to his best.
The southpaw struck out the side, sitting down Ben Rice and Heliot Ramos via the punchout before inducing a lazy pop-fly from Cody Bellinger.
How is Cam Schlittler dominating the Red Sox? — 9:08 p.m.
By Peter Abraham and Alex Speier
Cam Schlittler owns the Red Sox. That’s the story so far. He has retired nine of 10, six by strikeout. The Sox look overmatched against him once again.
How do you dominate a team that you’ve faced several times? Change looks. Schlittler has thrown 14 curveballs (27 percent usage) through three innings tonight. He didn’t throw more than 19 in any start this year.
Mid 3: Yankees 1, Red Sox 0 — 9:05 p.m.
By Tim Healey and Cam Kerry
The Red Sox go down in order again. Trevor Story fanned at curveball below the knees, Caleb Durbin grounded out to second base, and Roman Anthony went down swinging again.
The Red Sox’ only hit through three innings against Cam Schlittler is Adley Rutschman’s bloop single in the first inning. Schlittler’s lifetime ERA against the Red Sox: 0.51.
Anthony has swung and missed four times in two at-bats. He struck out both times trying to check his swing.
How long will Payton Tolle go? — 9:00 p.m.
By Tim Healey and Alex Speier
Payton Tolle is at 44 pitches through two innings. The Red Sox might be in an awkward spot if he doesn’t get deep into this game. You know Garrett Whitlock has the eighth, Aroldis Chapman the ninth. If the Sox need a particularly long bridge for that gap, how to fill it? Without Justin Slaten and without Tyron Guerrero, the likes of Greg Weissert, Wyatt Olds, and Alec Gamboa are important.
Tolle’s velocity took a notable downward turn in the second inning. His four-seamer went from 97.4 m.p.h. in the first to 95.6 m.p.h. in the second; his sinker dropped from 95.9 to 93.7. He’s done that in other starts while working to re-establish command over power, but — another thing worth monitoring as his outing continues.
End 2: Yankees 1, Red Sox 0 — 8:57 p.m.
By Cam Kerry
Payton Tolle gets out of the jam, stranding two after getting Paul Goldschmidt to bounce out to Caleb Durbin at third base.
Yankees take the lead — 8:55 p.m.
By Peter Abraham and Alex Speier
The Yankees break through first, with three hits in the second inning. A two-out, run-scoring single by Austin Wells scores George Lombard Jr. (the second youngest Yankee ever with a postseason hit, behind only Mickey Mantle) from second. The throw from Wilyer Abreu to the plate was uncharacteristically far off the mark — based on how hard Wells hit the ball, it seemed like Abreu would have a shot at cutting down Lombard Jr. at the plate.
Mid 2: Red Sox 0, Yankees 0 — 8:43 p.m.
By Peter Abraham, Cam Kerry, and Alex Speier
Cam Schlittler sets down Ceddanne Rafaela, Nick Sogard, and Jarren Duran in order to close out a strong inning from the Yankees ace.
In the top of the second, Rafaela looked like he was moving with a bit of discomfort both running to first on a slow infield grounder to third and while jogging deliberately back to the dugout. He remains in the game but given his recent quad injury and hamstring cramping, it’s a situation worth monitoring.
He’s thrown 37 pitches through two innings — his fifth most pitches through two innings this year. Schlittler has retired six of seven, four by strikeout. He has faced the Sox six times (regular season and postseason, counting tonight) and has allowed two earned runs over 34 1/3 innings — an 0.52 ERA.
End 1: Red Sox 0, Yankees 0 — 8:36 p.m.
By Cam Kerry and Alex Speier
Payton Tolle skirts arounds a double off the bat of Ben Rice, stranding the Cohasset native at second base to keep a scoreless inning. Tolle induced a fly out from Paul Goldschmidt before the Rice double, then fanned Heliot Ramos and got Cody Bellinger to line out to second base. He threw 20 pitches in the frame.
Tolle came out throwing heat, touching 99.2 mph against Ben Rice (the fastest pitch Tolle has thrown this year was 99.5 mph), but then — after Rice’s double — dialed back a bit from the stretch.
As he walked off the mound, Tolle — with a grin — pointed to the sky and then pantomimed pushing down towards the ground with both hands. Perhaps a sign that he had now had a chance to steady some nerves?
Mid 1: Red Sox 0, Yankees 0 — 8:27 p.m.
By Peter Abraham, Cam Kerry, and Alex Speier
Cam Schlittler struck out three, surrendering just a single to Adley Rutschman to get out of the first inning.
Schlittler featured nuclear stuff in the first inning, unloading both his four-seamer and sinker at up to 101 m.p.h. while also mixing in a few wipeout curveballs. Schlittler threw five curveballs in the inning — his most in the first inning of any outing this year. While Schlittler struck out three batters, Rutschman helped force him to throw 22 pitches in the first inning. Rutschman had a broken bat single on the 10th pitch of a very impressive at-bat against Schlittler. It was just the seventh at-bat of 10-plus pitches this year against Schlittler, and the first since Aug. 3.
Schlittler has 15 strikeouts in nine postseason innings against the Red Sox, and 42 in 33 1/3 innings overall.,
What will the Red Sox get out of Willson Contreras? — 8:25 p.m.
By Tim Healey
What version of Willson Contreras are the Red Sox going to get? He has two at-bats in the 12 days since getting hit in the right hand with a pitch.
In his first at-bat against Cam Schlittler, he struck out swinging at three consecutive pitches.
To the naked eye, he also seemed not nearly as on top of the plate as he usually is. Contreras likes to get in the heads up opposing pitchers by crowding the plate, really getting up near that inside chalk of the batter’s box. That is one reason he gets hit so often — including two weeks ago in Texas. Tonight, he seemed backed up a bit.
Adley Rutschman picks up Red Sox’ first hit — 8:23 p.m.
By Peter Abraham
10-pitch at-bat results in a bloop single for Adley Rutschman. Only his third hit in 21 career postseason at-bats.
And we’re underway — 8:15 p.m.
By Cam Kerry
Yankees starter Cam Schlittler pumps in a 101 m.p.h. fastball to Roman Anthony on the game’s first pitch.
Tino Martinez throws out the first pitch — 8:10 p.m.
By Alex Speier
Noted Red Sox draftee Tino Martinez threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Martinez was taken by the Sox in the third round of the 1985 draft but didn’t sign. He was taken by the Mariners in the 1st round in 1988, spent six years with them, then was traded to the Yankees prior to the 1996 season, thus positioning him to be part of the Yankees’ four titles from 1996-2000.
Chad Tracy went to home plate for the lineup card exchange. The Yankees delegated the responsibility to bench coach Luis Rojas.
Willson Contreras eggs on the Yankee Stadium crowd — 7:55 p.m.
By Alex Speier
During player introductions, members of the Red Sox starting lineup are being showered with boos — as expected. Willson Contreras, much as he did at the Home Run Derby this year in Philadelphia, cupped both of his ears to egg on the crowd.
Who holds the postseason head-to-head advantage, the Red Sox or Yankees? — 7:40 p.m.
by Alex Speier
This is the seventh postseason series (if a one-game Wild Card Game in 2021 can qualify as a “series” — an oxymoron that debases standards of language and decency) between the Red Sox and Yankees. Scorecard:
1999 ALCS: Yankees in 5
2003 ALCS: Yankees in 7
2004 ALCS: Red Sox in 7
2018 ALDS: Red Sox in 4
2021 AL Wild Card game: Red Sox
2025 AL Wild Card Series: Yankees in 3
The Yankees have won 14 of the 27 postseason games between the teams. This calculus does not include Game 163 in 1978, which was neither the playoffs nor a series.
The Red Sox’ big Wild Card roster decision? Garrett Crochet over Braiden Ward. — 7:30 p.m.
By Tim Healey
One interesting piece of the roster discussion: The Red Sox’ big decision basically came down to Garrett Crochet as a reliever versus Braiden Ward as a pinch runner.
They were mulling 11 pitchers with 15 position players or a 12/14 arrangement, Chad Tracy said. With Crochet, who hasn’t pitched in five months, the Red Sox want to be extra careful in terms of how often they use him — including maybe just once this series (though they haven’t ruled out him going twice). Because of all the extra care needed, they decided to carry the extra pitcher, putting them at 14, which left one fewer spot for the position players, i.e. Ward.
Chad Tracy’s postseason managerial debut is no more nerve-wracking than his first game — 7:15 p.m.
by Tim Healey
How does Chad Tracy feel going into his postseason debut?
“This honestly doesn’t feel any more nerve-wracking than April 26 did,” Tracy said Tuesday afternoon. “It feels like a lot less, honestly.”
April 26 was, of course, his first day as Red Sox interim manager. Alex Cora had been fired the night before, and he arrived in Baltimore — from Worcester — in the middle of the night for a day game that Sunday. It was, to say the least, a whirlwind.
“Going on April 26 and getting there on no sleep and waking up and going down to two busses where the players are like, you know, there’s our new manager — and all the conversations I knew I was going to have to have that day,” Tracy recalled. “This doesn’t feel any more nerve-wracking than that did. There was a lot more that was going to go on that day, off the field. And I always said, once you once you deal with all that stuff, you get to the game and it almost feels like the peaceful time because you’re prepared. You know what you can do and how you’re gonna react.”
A real slobberknocker’: It always comes back to the Yankees — 7:00 p.m.
By Tim Healey
If the baseball gods are real, they apparently are poets — with a sense of humor.
After all of the Red Sox’ dramatic twists and turns, everything they have survived and figured out, they find themselves exactly where they were a season ago: playing the Yankees, at Yankee Stadium, in the best-of-three AL Wild Card Series beginning Tuesday night.
Because of course it’s the Yankees, not only their archrival but also their opposition at the three most significant inflection points of their past year. It was always the Yankees.
It was the Yankees last October, when Walpole native Cam Schlittler dominated in the winner-take-all Game 3, his first game against his childhood team, ending the Red Sox’ season.
It was the Yankees in April, when the Red Sox got outscored, 12-3, in a three-game sweep at Fenway Park, motivating franchise decision-makers to fire longtime manager Alex Cora.
It was the Yankees in June, when the Red Sox pulled off anout-of-nowhere four-game sweep, beating Schlittler and others, the first shred of evidence that they were capable of saving the season.
And here they are again. Here they go again.
The Jekyll-and-Hyde Red Sox: Which team will we see in the Bronx? — 6:45 p.m.
By Peter Abraham
In the end — after all the drama of Alex Cora’s firing, a series of roster-shaking injuries, and a roller-coaster ride of a season — not much had changed for the Red Sox when the regular season ended on Sunday.
The Sox finished 87-75, good enough for third place in the American League East and a berth in the Wild Card Series against the Yankees in New York.
They were 89-73 last season, finished third in the division, and played the Yankees in the Wild Card Series in New York. The Sox were eliminated in three games, scoring only six runs.
The next few days will determine how this season is remembered.
Beat the Yankees and the Sox will advance to the Division Series against the Rays and host a playoff game at Fenway Park for the first time since 2021.
But which Red Sox team will show up in the Bronx?
How much is information worth in baseball’s playoffs? — 6:30 p.m.
By Alex Speier
What’s a morsel of information that might dictate the outcome of a postseason game worth?
Baseball history is littered with stories about details unearthed by advance scouts that transformed a series. The most famous may have come in the 1988 World Series.
Dodgers advance scout Mel Didier insisted that if A’s closer Dennis Eckersley got a lefthanded hitter into a 3-2 count, he’d throw a backdoor slider. In Game 1, Kirk Gibson — pinch hitting in the ninth inning with his team trailing, 4-3, and a man on first — stepped out of the box when the count ran full, recalled Didier’s guarantee, sat on a backdoor slider, and, though hobbled by a knee injury, whacked an unforgettable walkoff homer. The Dodgers won the title in five games.
There are other such instances. In 2007, Red Sox advance scout Todd Claus identified a potential opportunity to pick off Rockies outfielder Matt Holliday if he reached first base. Closer Jonathan Papelbon, who almost never threw to first, wiped out Holliday for the third out of the eighth inning in a 2-1 win.
Payton Tolle will be a main character in this Red Sox-Yankees series. And what a character he is. — 6:15 p.m.
By Peter Abraham
One thing you learn when working on a Payton Tolle story: Everybody has a Payton Tolle story.
“I’ve got one,” Red Sox manager Chad Tracy said last week.
Tolle pitched his first game for Triple-A Worcester on Aug. 10 last season, a significant career milestone at the time.
With one out and a runner on first base in the first inning, Tolle got a ground ball to second. It should have been an inning-ending double play, but the ball was booted. Tolle walked the next hitter on five pitches to load the bases.
Tolle was determined to throw a strike to the next hitter, and he did. It was launched 414 feet to left field for a grand slam. Then came a single and another home run.
Tracy, who was Worcester’s manager at the time, sent pitching coach Dan DeLucia to the mound to give the big lefthander a pep talk. But Tolle was smiling when he got there.
“Well, that didn’t go how I was hoping it would go,” Tolle cracked.
Tolle made his major league debut 19 days later. By the end of the season, he was on the playoff roster as a reliever. He faced only one batter.
A year later, Tolle will be one of the main characters when the Red Sox meet the Yankees again in the best-of-three Wild Card Series in New York starting on Tuesday.
If the Red Sox can get past the Yankees, the Chad Tracy story goes from a good one to a great one — 6:00 p.m.
By Peter Abraham
Because there are odds on everything these days, Will Venable is the favorite to be the American League Manager of the Year, with Kevin Cash the second choice.
Venable led the White Sox to the postseason after losing 102 games last season. He deserves all the plaudits.
But what about Chad Tracy?
Tracy was called away from managing a game with Triple-A Worcester on April 25 and told that Alex Cora was getting fired and he would manage the Red Sox the next day in Baltimore. It was the baseball equivalent of getting thrown out of a plane without a parachute.
After making the announcement, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said he couldn’t guarantee Tracy would finish the season as manager.
Five months later, the Sox are in the playoffs after a remarkable turnaround, and Tracy is the only rookie manager whose team is still playing.
It’s a good story, complete with Tracy agreeing to a three-year contract last week. But in two or three more days, it could be a great story.
Yankees ace Cam Schlittler says he’s ‘keeping receipts’ from Red Sox fans — 5:30 p.m.
By Conor Ryan, Boston.com Staff
Cam Schlittler has been a menace on the mound against the Red Sox over the last two seasons.
The Walpole native and former Northeastern University star has more on his mind than just dominating Boston’s lineup during Tuesday’s anticipated Game 1 matchup against the Red Sox.
Speaking ahead of the best-of-three Wild Card series at Yankee Stadium, Schlittler acknowledged that he still has a hefty chip on his shoulder given the amount of chirps and online barbs he’s received from Red Sox fans.
The AL Cy Young frontrunner has embraced that vitriol and his standing as the next great antagonist in the Boston sports sphere — and said he channels that negativity into fuel out on the mound.
After ending Boston’s season last October with an eight-inning masterpiece in Game 3 of that Wild Card series, Schlittler is looking to put his hometown team on the ropes once again Tuesday in the Bronx.
“I wouldn’t say I’m always on my phone looking for that stuff,” Schlittler said. “At the same time, I don’t really live under a rock as well. I’ve found ways to use that to my advantage. I think I’m good at keeping receipts.”
Schlittler already has an extensive track record of trading taunts with Red Sox fans.
After ending the Red Sox’ 2025 campaign, Schlittler took to social media to twist the knife against Boston.
“Drinking dat dirty water,” Schlittler wrote in one social media post after he shut down Boston’s bats in that win-or-go-home bout.
After that Game 3 win, Schlittler said beating Boston became “personal” to him, noting that he and his family had been harassed online by Red Sox fans.
“I’m not gonna get into it, but there’s a line and I think they crossed it a little bit,” Schlittler told reporters. “I’m a competitor, and I’m gonna go out there and make sure I shut ’em down.
“You know Boston fans, that’s just how it is. We’re aggressive back home and we’re gonna try to get under people’s skin. They just picked the wrong guy to do it to and the wrong team to do it to.”
Those battles continued this season, with the righty telling Joel Sherman of the New York Post in April that both he and his family received death threats and other messages ahead of his first game at Fenway Park.
“Most normal fans could care less, right?” Schlittler told Sherman. “It’s just those diehards that just have nothing else in their lives other than baseball or sports that really care about this and the fact that I play for the Yankees makes it worse for them.”
So far, Schlittler hasn’t let Red Sox fans knock him off his game. In his first full year in the majors, Schlittler went 14-6 with a 1.95 ERA, striking out 239 batters over 193 innings of work.
He’s been at his best when going up against the Red Sox, going 2-1 with a 0.74 ERA against Boston in 2026.
“I faced other teams in the AL four times this year, and I’ve seen good success,” Schlittler said. “You’ve got to rely on your strengths. At the same time, you’ve got to see what adjustments they make and kind of just go from there.”
For all of the drama rooted in his beef with Boston — coupled with the natural animosity between the Red Sox and Yankees — Schlittler said he’s not overthinking his anticipated postseason rematch on Tuesday night.
“I feel like I’m a competitor,” Schlittler said. “It’s not something that bothers me. I’m going to go out there and do my job and put my team in the best position to win.”
NESN sees big increase in Red Sox viewership during team’s hot second half — 5:00 p.m.
By Chad Finn
The Red Sox’ on-field surge, which included a 15-game winning streak and 32-5 stretch from late June to early August, inspired a major rise in viewership for NESN’s game broadcasts in the season’s second half.
NESN said Tuesday that its streaming viewership rose 49 percent in the season’s second half, while its Persons 2+ audience — essentially the raw viewership numbers, rather than those of a specific demographic — were up 44 percent after the All-Star break.
Overall, Red Sox broadcasts on NESN had a 3.71 household rating this season, including a 4.45 in the second half.
What Yankees’ struggles say about Sox pitching decisions — 4:30 p.m.
By Alex Speier
Of note in the selection of Payton Tolle for Game 1, and the choice to have Garrett Crochet on the roster as a bullpen option to help face lefties Ben Rice and Cody Bellinger: The Yankees struggled against lefties this year, particularly starting in June, when Aaron Judge landed on the injured list for the first time with his rib injury. Starting on June 1, the Yankees hit .240 and slugged .389 against lefties, with both marks below league average.
Both offenses are depleted. The Yankees are without Aaron Judge. The Red Sox have Willson Contreras, but after he missed eight of the team’s final nine games due to a hand injury (and went just 0 for 2 in his return), his status is far from clear.
The result? While this is the seventh time the Red Sox and Yankees have faced off in the postseason, this matchup is uncharacteristically defined by dominant pitching staffs and diminished lineups. The Yankees averaged 4.6 runs per game, a mark that ranked eighth in MLB. However, in their (mostly) post-Judge configuration starting on June 1, they averaged 4.2 runs per game – 22nd in the big leagues in that time.
The Sox, meanwhile, averaged 4.2 runs per game for the entire season, a mark that ranked 23rd in the big leagues. They did improve to 4.5 runs per game (12th) starting with the beginning of their turnaround on June 25, but just 2.96 runs per contest in September — not only the worst in baseball in the season’s final month, but the team’s worst offensive output in any month since May 2015 (2.83).
Meanwhile, the two pitching staffs were the best groups of arms in the AL. The Yankees allowed 3.7 runs per game, while the Sox allowed 3.8. Those dynamics suggest the potential for the same kind of taut, low-scoring series that took place in the 2025 Wild Card Series, when the two teams scored a total of 15 runs over the three contests.
This series, in the words of Tolle, could be a “slobberknocker.”
For those who need a primer on slobberknockers, as usual, the OED has you covered.
Here’s guessing that the frequency of the term’s usage rebounds in 2026. Here’s also guessing that the Boston Globe will be part of that push.
Tolle, Schlittler, and power pitching: Can Sox handle the heat? — 4:15 p.m.
By Alex Speier
Game 1 represents the ultimate matchup in baseball’s renewed era of power pitching, driven by the ability to attack the strike zone with three types of fastballs that move in different directions: The four-seam fastball with ride (vertical life) and little horizontal movement; the sinker or two-seamer that moves down and to a pitcher’s arm-side; and the cutter that has glove-side break.
Cam Schlittler threw those three fastballs with 89 percent of his pitches, the highest rate in the majors this year. Second on the list? Payton Tolle, who threw his three fastballs 87 percent of the time. Of the 106 pitches who logged at least 2,000 pitches this year, no one else was close to those two in fastball usage. (Tampa Bay’s Drew Rasmussen ranked third, using his three fastballs 80 percent of the time.)
[Read more: Payton Tolle and Cam Schlittler have risen to stardom the same way: with a three-fastball power arsenal ]
The path for both Schlittler and Tolle to Game 1 has some similarities — a fact perhaps best appreciated by Red Sox director of pitching (and former Yankees pitching coordinator) Ben Buck, who worked with both pitchers at the start of their pro careers, when both hurlers featured below-average velocity, a far cry from the mid- to upper-90s registers where both now operate.
The selection of Schlittler and Tolle as Game 1 starters shouldn’t come as a surprise, since power stuff – and premium velocity – are a central part of postseason baseball, potentially picking at a vulnerable scab for both teams.
Sox roster set: Garrett Crochet back after missing five months with injury — 4:00 p.m.
By Tim Healey
The Red Sox announced Tuesday that they included lefthanded ace Garrett Crochet on their roster, though he will be limited to short-relief duty after not pitching since April because of a shoulder injury.
Crochet set out in late July to “reverse engineer” a comeback by setting a postseason deadline and working backward on a throwing program from there, then hit virtually every mile marker the next two-plus months.
“I’m a goal-driven guy. If I see a deadline, I’m going to [expletive] meet it,” Crochet told the Globe in July. “It kind of goes into the realm of, what the [expletive] is the point of building up the strength now [if not to pitch again in 2026]?”
Crochet, the AL Cy Young Award runner-up in 2025, most recently appeared in a game on April 25, the day the Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora. So Crochet has never pitched for Chad Tracy, who took over as interim manager and last week was named the full-time manager.
Tracy said Monday that the Sox were not sure yet how frequently or to what extent they could use Crochet given his limited buildup.
Here’s a look at the roster:
PITCHERS (12): Brayan Bello, Jake Bennett, Aroldis Chapman, Garrett Crochet, Alec Gamboa, Sonny Gray, Erik Miller, Wyatt Olds, Ranger Suarez, Payton Tolle, Greg Weissert, Garrett Whitlock.
CATCHERS (2): Adley Rutschman, Connor Wong.
INFIELDERS (5): Willson Contreras, Caleb Durbin, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Andruw Monasterio, Trevor Story.
OUTFIELDERS (5): Wilyer Abreu, Roman Anthony, Jarren Duran, Jahmai Jones, Ceddanne Rafaela.
INFIELDER/OUTFIELDERS (2): Nate Eaton, Nick Sogard.
Live from New York — 3:45 p.m.
Greetings from Yankee Stadium! The Globe will have you covered from every possible angle of the Red Sox-Yankees Wild Card Series over the coming days. — Alex Speier
Peter Abraham can be reached at peter.abraham@globe.com. Follow him on Bluesky at peteabeglobe.bsky.social. Tim Healey can be reached at timothy.healey@globe.com. Follow him @timbhealey. Alex Speier can be reached at alex.speier@globe.com. Follow him @alexspeier. Cam Kerry can be reached at cam.kerry@globe.com. Katie McInerney can be reached at katie.mcinerney@globe.com. Follow her on Instagram at @katiemac.sports.
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