Ep 445: Are the Red Sox rushing players (like Adley Rutschman, Trevor Story) back from rehab assignments? Plus thoughts on key new injuries and a blowout win Monday

So we'll just kind of give your state of the team to start.

My first thought on it is they caught the Diamondbacks at a great time because their leader went MIA and AWOL on them, and their best player-

For the second time in a year.

Yeah.

Apparently, he's flying back to Phoenix for an MRI on his knee.

I'm sure the, you know, the great Diamondbacks beat guys will uncover that.

We're not gonna dig into it too much other than to say, "Okay, maybe we were wrong about wanting to trade for this guy all winter.

Our bad." Um, but yeah, I think they caught the Diamondbacks at a bad time, but still in a game where you got Gamboa and Bello and your offense hasn't been firing to come home with a blowout, I thought pretty encouraging.

Mm-hmm.

That's the, the last movie we can review, but give us thoughts on what you saw in Pittsburgh, what happened last night, all that.

Yeah.

Uh, we'll, we'll start with last night, which I think was a great way to kick off the home stand.

They've got six games, uh, one against a pretty good team in Arizona and one against a lousy team in San Francisco this weekend.

Uh, but to sort of erase any negative momentum, uh, that was building their way after a disappointing road trip that saw them go, what, two and four? Um, not-

Two and five.

Two and five.

Uh, not what they had hoped for certainly.

Um, it was not a great week end in Pittsburgh other than what Sonny Gray could accomplish on Saturday, winning his career-high 15th game, um, and being the stopper that he has evolved into this year.

Yeah.

Um, you know, I, I, I think when the season started, most people looked at him and said, "Well, he'll be a decent number two guy who's been a veteran and been around and all of that."

Or lower.

But, um, nobody, I don't think, saw this coming.

Nobody saw 15 wins and a sub-three and a 2.5 ERA in the middle of August, and certainly in the running for American League Cy Young Award.

Uh, a lot to go there.

Schlitter is, uh, certainly in the conversation too.