{"id":3445,"date":"2026-06-24T06:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:03:35","slug":"sonny-gray-was-the-rock-in-denver-on-tuesday-as-red-sox-recovered-from-catastrophic-loss-behind-a-stellar-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3445","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Gray was the rock in Denver on Tuesday, as Red Sox recovered from catastrophic loss behind a stellar start"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>DENVER \u2014 For Sonny Gray, the key to pitching at Coors Field, hitters haven, had nothing to do with the physical challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3443\">Gun rights advocates want to convince voters to undo a sweeping Mass. firearms law. They hope it spurs something bigger.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>It was all mental.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before tossing perhaps his best game of the year Tuesday night, leading the Red Sox to a 5-2 win over the Rockies, Gray had heard all the horror stories about pitching at high altitude and decided to pay them no mind. He has made a career out of throwing breaking balls \u2014 he does so \u201cbetter than anyone in baseball,\u201d he said in December \u2014 and figured this occasion should be no different.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>\u201cI can spin the ball on the moon,\u201d Gray said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And so he spun the ball on the moon \u2014 or in the mountains, at least.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gray struck out a season-high 11 batters across a season-high-tying seven innings. The Rockies managed six hits and three walks against him, but only one run, on Willi Castro\u2019s second-inning homer.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen you see a guy go out there and just dominate his craft like that \u2014 he\u2019s giving it his all \u2014 it just helps everybody else behind him want to play just as hard,\u201d said Nate Eaton, who reached base four times and totaled two doubles, two RBIs, and two runs scored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Interim manager Chad Tracy said: \u201cExceptional.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Will the Red Sox starting selling off players ahead of the Aug. 3 trade deadline? Not so fast, says Craig Breslow.<\/div>\n<p><span>Gray got off to an, ahem, rocky start when he issued a four-pitch walk to his first batter, Jake McCarthy, he of the walkoff, three-run triple Monday night. Then Gray \u201csaid some things to myself,\u201d he explained, and snapped back into it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A big part of that: rejecting the idea that pitching in historically the most hitter-friendly active ballpark in the majors, where breaking balls often don\u2019t break, is difficult. He has lasted exactly seven innings and given up exactly one run in his only two starts in Colorado, the other coming in 2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Of the 16 swings-and-misses induced by Gray, 13 came on his sweeper, the offering he threw more than any other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou just have to flip your mindset, because I think this place is \u2014 it is what it is,\u201d Gray said. \u201cIf you give it like an inch in your mental space, then it can start to take over. Obviously, I think it\u2019s important to be aware that you\u2019re pitching at elevation, but at the same time, once you start making excuses and stuff like that, then it just kind of wears on you and then you lose your confidence out there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m just tricking my mind into believing that it can do anything. So it\u2019s just another place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gray lowered his ERA to 2.95. If he had enough innings to qualify for the leaderboards \u2014 he is two outs shy of doing so \u2014 he would be fifth in the American League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3441\">With housing costs sky high, Congress finally puts aside partisanship and acts to increase supply<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat was a fun game,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was a good win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Incredibly, a day after their worst loss of the season, Aroldis Chapman\u2019s first blown save in 11 months, fun was a theme. At 32-45, the Red Sox inched ahead of the Rockies (31-49) in the race for the fewest wins in the majors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lefthander Sean Sullivan, an Andover native who attended Tabor Academy, started for the Rockies and navigated five innings while holding the Sox to three runs. That was a win of sorts considering he worked around a ton of traffic on the bases: five hits and five walks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His primary problem was Wilyer Abreu, who socked an RBI triple to right-center field in the first inning, scoring Eaton, and hammered a solo home run to right-center in the fifth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Abreu\u2019s longball, his 10th of the year and fourth of the month, went an estimated 443 feet.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>But that first run may have been even more important. An immediate lead was noteworthy in the team\u2019s attempt to rebound from their messy Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNo matter what happened the day before, being able to get a run over early helps everyone,\u201d Eaton said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tracy said of Eaton, the leadoff man for the day: \u201cHe gives us a spark.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The delightful footnote to Abreu\u2019s first game: He grew up a Rockies fan because he liked former All-Star Carlos Gonzalez, a franchise standout from 2009-18. He is from Maracaibo, Venezuela, same as Abreu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe had a really good flow when he was playing baseball, so he just was fun to watch,\u201d Abreu said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3439\">Trump heads to Capitol to speak with GOP senators who have grown increasingly frustrated with him<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>They have never met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNot yet,\u201d he said. \u201cBut maybe sometime.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>What happens at the MLB Draft Combine? More than 300 prospects will be under review.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray allowed one run over seven innings and struck out a season-high 11. 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