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Los Angeles has lost 13 games in a row but the most recent came at a greater cost, with Mike Trout suffering an injury in Tuesday's loss to Boston. Our MLB betting picks don't expect the banged-up Angels to challenge the Red Sox. The Los Angeles Angels were so close to snapping their 12-game losing streak on Tuesday, but the Boston Red Sox scored…

Believe it or not, Red Sox spring training opens in just about five weeks. The roster is not complete quite yet, but the large majority of the 2023 team has already been put together, and it looks quite different than the group that last took the field at Fenway Park in early October. Boston's chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom entered the winter…

Hockey players used to come from places like Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat and Prince Albert. Now they come - some of the biggest stars, it seems, some of the most explosive players - from Scottsdale and Phoenix and suburban Los Angeles. When Tage Thompson scored five goals the other night for the Buffalo Sabres, bringing his total to 21 in 26 games…

Happy 2021 to all. A new year calls for a new batch of entertainingly dubious and dubiously entertaining baseball predictions. Ordinarily, the difficulty of such predictions comes down to the results. But in these unusual circumstances we find ourselves in, you'd have just as much difficulty predicting whether fans will be able to attend, the…

Just being able to write about the Detroit Tigers and any sort of realistic shot at making the playoffs is so refreshing, when such thoughts have been non existent for the past five years, basically since former owner Mike Ilitch passed away. But here we are, with the much heralded prospects arriving in the major leagues and the team actually…

The Boston Red Sox open up the 2022 regular season with high expectations.The team overachieved a year ago and surprised many by making it all the way to the American League Championship Series. The signing of Trevor Story this offseason only raises expectations higher. Let's preview the Boston Red Sox season and consider the projected lineup, the…

The Boston Red Sox (6-12) and New York Yankees (7-9) conclude their quickie two-game American League East series, and the Red Sox struggles continue. They were pounded in Tuesday's game by an 8-0 score, slipping to a dismal 3-9 on the road, as they remain mired in last place in the AL East. The Yankees aren't much better, as they improved to just…

Major League Baseball's August 2 trade deadline is still a long way off. But the past two months of action have set the table enough for us to throw down some bold predictions regarding what type of chaos awaits in two months. Just so we're clear from the outset: We're aiming for bold but realistic predictions. I'm not here to make up some…

We are one game into the 2022 season, and while Opening Day certainly did not go the way we were all hoping here at OTM, it is still a very long year and one game does not a season make. You needn't look very far for an example of this being true, either, as the Red Sox started their 2021 campaign with three straight losses to the lowly Orioles. We…

A new season means the return of a traditional series here at Bless You Boys. If this is your first season with us, let me introduce you to Behind Enemy Lines, the Q&A that aims to provide some expert insight into the upcoming competition. We take time to chat with the folks who run our sister sites, and pick their brains about under-the-radar…

The Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox face off in a Spring Training matchup at the Red Sox spring home, JetBlue Park at Fenway Park South, in Fort Myers, Florida. The two teams are getting ready for the start of the regular season, which is less 10 days away. Spring Training games are always unpredictable. What should fans expect from this…

As the Red Sox embark on a fresh season, a different kind of optimism surrounds the club. Last year at this time, coming off a brutal 2020 campaign, the "bridge year" narrative was in full force. Yet the Red Sox surprised many across baseball, pushing deep into the postseason with a flexible roster and strong chemistry while embracing their…

The last time fans saw Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Teoscar Hernandez, he was hitting two homers in that painful 10-9 wild card series loss at Rogers Centre in October that ended their season. That was against the Seattle Mariners, who, ironically, just acquired the 30-year-old in a stunning trade announced earlier today. Hernandez goes to the…

Both teams come off of off days so the squads should be fully rested. After dropping four straight last week, the Rays appear to have started righting the ship, winning three of their past four. The Red Sox, meanwhile, have lost three of their past four, scoring three runs or fewer in each of their games. Boston rarely plays well at Tropicana Field…

TORONTO - It is the privilege and bane of MLB closers that, when the most meaningful moments and fate-changing postseason events occur, they're the ones with the ball in their hand. They begin the chain of events that are remembered forever. They wear the glory or the heartbreak. And so, as the final four Seattle Mariners crossed home Saturday,…

We have no idea when, and based on what has been made public essentially no progress has been achieved, but eventually this lockout will end and baseball will resume. When that happens, we can expect a frenzy of activity as teams try to get their rosters set for camp and then the regular season. For the Boston Red Sox, they did a fair amount of…

This last week has been tough, yes, but everyone take a breath and look at that teal dot hanging tough at the top of this graph. To be fair, if there were ever a more Mariners-y moment to begin to play their worst baseball of the season, this would be it. A mere eight games away from clinching their first playoff appearance in two decades (thanks…

Following yesterday's off-day, the Toronto Blue Jays begin a quick two-game series in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. The pregame narrative: The Blue Jays took both games against the Phillies at Rogers Centre back in July, and now Toronto is looking for a seventh consecutive series win. Philadelphia has dropped four games in a row. Odds as of 8:47…

From the time he was four years old, when September came around P.K. Subban knew what team he was going to be playing for. In his early years in the GTHL, there was annual demand for Subban's immense talents. The phone calls were many. The annual recruitment was heavy. And then he became an NHL player, a legend of sorts, a magazine cover waiting to…

The Toronto Blue Jays were one of the heavy favorites to win the American League entering the season. There were a plethora of problems throughout the season, starting with the manager switch from Charlie Montoyo to John Schneider. That move propelled the Blue Jays to a better position and primed them to make some noise in the postseason. Pitching…

Yusei Kikuchi can still do plenty of damage in a bullpen game. With the Jays trotting out their weakest pitching, they could be in for mounds of trouble, which is why we're targeting the Pirates for tonight's MLB picks. The Toronto Jays have moved from a -230 favorite last night to -165 favorites today vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates, and all of that…

Against all odds, one of the representatives in last year's American League Championship Series, the Boston Red Sox, are currently in last place of the AL East division. Yes: even the surprisingly competitive Baltimore Orioles have been better than the disappointing Sox, whose season has been falling apart piece by piece for a few weeks now. Boston…