The Red Sox have been a mess for stretches of 2026, but a sweep of Detroit got the fan base breathing again. Sonny Gray came back, the bullpen held, and Boston actually looked like a baseball team for 3 straight nights. Jared Carrabis was on it after the closeout, and even he was careful not to oversell it.
Carrabis recapping the sweep-clinching win over the Tigers.
The vibes were good enough that the question of whether to blow the positivity horn became its own subplot. Carrabis ruled it premature. A sweep is a sweep, but this is still a team that's been waiting a long time to feel normal again, and one strong series doesn't erase a brutal start.
Carrabis tapping the brakes on the celebration.
Hold the horn. Very happy about the sweep, but we’re not quite in Horn Country yet.
Then the Roman Anthony injury news hit and the mood shifted in a hurry. Losing a centerpiece bat is the kind of gut punch that drags every old grievance back into daylight, which is exactly when Dave Portnoy decided to remind everyone how Boston ended up here. Portnoy threw it back to ownership letting a star walk in his prime over a lowball offer, and the timing was not subtle.
Portnoy taking the shot at John Henry.
Remember when John Henry lowballed him and insulted him so he left while still in his prime? I do.
He's talking, of course, about Nathan Eovaldi, who left Boston and has been carving up his old division ever since. Hubbs put a bow on the whole thing with the only strategy that actually seems to work against him.
Hubbs offering his game plan for the rest of the year.
Good plan moving forward will be don't face Nathan Eovaldi
That's the Red Sox in 2026 in a single beat: a feel-good sweep, a horn that stays in the case, an injury that hurts more than it should, and a fan base that can't help but circle back to the guy ownership let walk. The wins are real. The grudge is realer.