Nobody circled this Red Sox team as a summer juggernaut back in June. But the numbers stopped being a fluke a while ago and turned into something historians care about. Since July 3, Boston has gone 26-3, a stretch that puts them in company with the 1914 Athletics, the 1941, 1947 and 1953 Yankees, the 1977 Royals, the 2002 Athletics and the 2017 Indians as the only American League teams to run off a 26-3 stretch. That's not a hot week. That's a franchise moment.
the only American League teams with a 26-3 run: 1914 Athletics 1941 Yankees 1947 Yankees 1953 Yankees 1977 Royals 2002 Athletics 2017 Cleveland Indians 2026 Boston Red Sox
Codify's leaderboard of wins over the last 29 games says it all: Boston sits at 26, with the next-closest teams bunched way back in the low-20s. It's not just that the Red Sox are winning — it's that nobody else in baseball is within shouting distance of the pace they've been on since the calendar flipped to July.
Wins, Last 29 Games: 26 BOS 😮 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 ATL DET 18 ARI MIL CHC 17 SD CIN BAL HOU 16 TB NYY MIN 15 14 NYM CWS 13 PIT TOR KC PHI LAD TEX 12 SF CLE MIA SEA COL 11 WSH 10 STL 9 8 LAA 7 6 5 ATH
The run's signature moment came Thursday night at Fenway, when Boston beat the White Sox 12-11 in 13 innings, erasing multiple deficits along the way before Caleb Durbin's RBI single walked it off, according to reporting on the game. It was the eighth straight win for the Red Sox and one of the longest games of the pitch-clock era — the kind of night where both bullpens got emptied and nobody in the building sat down.
THE BOSTON RED SOX HAVE WON 26 OF THEIR LAST 29 GAMES!!!
The chaos was visible in real time. Eno Sarris summed up the vibe from press row with a two-word review — "This sawx/sox game is drunk" — and by the time it was over, Codify was pointing out the White Sox had burned through their entire bench of position players just trying to survive extra innings.
What makes this stretch even wilder is who's doing it. Codify flagged that only 5 Red Sox have played 100-plus games this season, meaning Boston isn't riding one bulletproof lineup so much as an entire depth chart that keeps producing. That's usually the profile of a team that plays meaningful October baseball, not a club just padding a hot streak against bad opponents.
It's officially on the industry's radar too — Ken Rosenthal's Fair Territory podcast put the Red Sox's surge on the same episode rundown as the Ohtani/PCA MVP race and the Dodgers' slide, which tells you where Boston now sits in the national conversation. And for bettors, the vibes have shifted from sleeper to storyline: weather guys like Kevin Roth are already parsing Fenway conditions and sharp money on Red Sox totals, exactly the kind of attention a team gets once it stops being a surprise and starts being a line-mover.