Red Sox excited by the Rauca crowd, shows the struggle in the home victory
BOSTON – The Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora leaned on a wall on the back of the Fenway Park’s conference room, four hours before the first shot of Friday’s opening.
He had his head down, listening to Garrett Crochet Discuss the extension of the six -year contract of $ 170 million He had signed three days before.
Acchet was asked a question on the brilliant future of the organization with an increase prospects and the possibility of better days to come. Crochet’s response raised the head and smile.
“It is incredibly important, but the present is also what they are extremely concentrated at the moment,” said Crochet. “Those (potential customers) have the opportunity to help us this year, but at the moment I can’t wait for (the game) today.”
Cora nodded with his head in approval.
Over the past five years, the focus has been on the future while the Red Soxs have faded through mediocrity and the last place. After a low season of important operations and purchases of free agents, the Front Office did its part to put a better team in the field. Now that team is trying to demonstrate that investments were worth the cost.
This focus on the victory was now exhibited on Friday when the Red Sox beat the St. Cardinals 13-9 to win their first home opening since 2020.
“Pars pumped, it was a funny atmosphere,” said Trevor Story, whose Homer with three shots in the first ining followed by Wileer Abreu’s solo blow fueled the Red Sox in an advantage of 5-0. “We know how good we can be. We still have a lot of work to do. And a lot of preparation to do. But we live at the moment and we trust each other and we know what we can do.”
There was a different type of buzz around Fenway Park even before the Red Sox burst to their advantage and then fought to add insurance races in the central inning, retaining late for a satisfactory victory.
The pre-match ceremony in a Fenway Park sold out. (Paul Rutherford / Imagn images)
A crowd of 36,462 climbing Fenway, eager to see how a new red sox team appears that explodes with the potential. The players have fueled to fans’ energy.
“It was electric,” said the debutant Kristian Campbell, who went 1 in 2 with two walks and has now reached the base safe in all eight games this season. “The crowd was super strong. Especially in consecutive home races. It was nice to see it at the beginning of the game. It is the first time I tried it, so it was beautiful, for sure.”
Alex Bregman, who signed a three -year agreement from $ 120 million With the club in February he was so anxious for the open of the house, he could not sleep. Knowing how anxious the third baseman would have been, Cora sent him a message on Thursday evening so as not to get to 6 in the morning
“Obviously, everyone was lit for this year,” Bregman said, confirming that he arrived around 8:30 am “we feel like having a really good team, and now it’s time to slow down, enter the rhythm of the season, put together good beats and perform. I think we have done a better job in the last few days and (we don’t see the time to continue doing it.”
Six months ago, Cora was in the same press conference room as that Friday, complaining of another disappointing season with more vague promises of better days to come.
Friday seemed one of those best days.
“I’m not here to say it’s the World Series or the bust,” Cora said. “I’m here to say that we have a good baseball team, but we have to improve. We have to work, and that’s what we are trying to make.”
There is undoubtedly a long way to go, but the red Sox showed an implacability to the dish that fueled them in past years.
After a Bregman RBI Double opened the score, Homer with three story shots in the first set the tone. He was his first Homer to Fenway from September 14, 2023. Abreu then brought back-to-back. Now he has three homers and five extra-basic blows in eight games this season.
The Back-to-Back Homers allowed the red Sox to debut with their new celebration managed by home while the story wore a miniature monster helmet in shelter. He noticed that it was the idea of Jarren Duran and later Duran accredited the assistant GM Raquel Ferreira for doing it. It was added to the celebratory mood while the crowd roar in the background.
Greet the race at home Wally.
– Red Sox (@redsox.com) April 4, 2025 at 12:03
“It is a different first inning than the latest houses of houses,” said Cora. “It has been the opposite in recent years and for us five, I was thinking about it, as you feel much better.”
The Red Sox offense was relentless, collecting 16 shots, including six extra-base shots. They had to be, given that the appetizer Walker Buhler had a little brilliant day on the mound. He gave up five points out of seven shots and a walk with four Strikeout in five inning, allowing the cardinals to pull within 6-5. It allowed nine races earned in 9 inning 1/3 in its first two departures with the Red Sox.
“Frustrating not to say more,” said Buhler. “Come to a new team and any pedigree has, I want to show it and be that boy here and I want to help this team win and not to do it in the first two weeks is frustrating.”
The Red Sox replied when the cardinals gathered, however, while Boston added two races in the fifth on a single RBI of Abreu and a sacrificial fly by Campbell in a comedy that went during the revision for the interference of the fans, but in the end she was governed in favor of Boston. They continued to accumulate, marking five other runs in the seventh and eighth, highlighted by a single RABI by Rafael Devars. DOWS went 2 out of 3 with two walks as he continues to bounce after a difficult start on the road.
A blip was the defense of the red Sox, which had been solid in almost all games during the trip. Some late errors in the game made the score closer than it should be, since the cardinals scored three in ninth before Arolis Chapman took the place of Cooper Criswell and closed the door.
Red Sox are far from perfect and admitted it on Friday. But they have the whole season to continue perfecting their team and the open scored the first more promising game to Fenway that the club has seen for some time.
“Honestly, I think it looks a good breath to really cheer us for us,” Duran said. “So it was really nice to immediately involve the crowd.”
It is still too early in the season it tells what this Red Sox team will be or what it will make.
“In the end we will speak in six or seven months of our success for measures of victories and losses and non -vibrations,” said Craig Breslow, Craig Breslow, Craig Breslow to start the day. “But hope is a group of people who unite and put the collective in front of themselves puts the track for success.”
On Friday, in their first game in Fenway, they did just that.
(Photo above: Brian Fluharty / Getty Images)
