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BOSTON — The Red Sox will come to Fenway Park on Tuesday with a chance of making — or at least matching — franchise history.
A win over the Orioles would be Boston’s 15th in a row, matching the only other such streak in franchise history, which took place from April 25-May 10, 1946. Nearly 80 years later, the Red Sox — with 14 straight wins dating back to July 3 in Anaheim — are beating down history’s door.
“You try not to (think about it), but I want it,” said third baseman Caleb Durbin, who was the hero Monday. “I can’t speak for anyone else because we haven’t really talked about it, but shoot, yeah, I want to make history here.”
Boston’s streak is the longest in baseball this season. It’s tied for the longest streak in the American League since Seattle won 14 in a row in July 2022. Monday’s 6-5 win, in which Durbin hit a game-winning homer in the eighth inning, was the fifth time during the streak the Red Sox have won by two or fewer runs and the sixth come-from-behind victory of the stretch.
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“That was unbelievable,” said interim manager Chad Tracy. “It was a heck of an effort. Had to come back multiple times and kept fighting back. That was a heck of a win.
“The number of wins in a row is hard to believe, but they’re playing, they’re giving it everything they’ve got, they’re executing and they’re doing a great job.”
Win No. 14 was made possible by Durbin, who with two outs in the eighth inning, broke a 5-5 tie with a solo homer off Baltimore reliever Tyler Wells. The Red Sox overcame deficits to tie the game in the first, sixth and seventh innings before taking the lead for good on a 364-foot blast that sent a sellout crowd of 37,659 — and the Red Sox’ dugout — into pure pandemonium.
“The electricity on that one is probably top of the list,” Durbin said. “Just being able to come through for the guys and get the lead there was big.
“There’s not a lot of times I’ve blacked out, like they say. I think that was one of the moments where I didn’t know what was happening. I was just going with it. I couldn’t tell you what I looked like running around the bases.”
Entering Monday, the 2026 Red Sox were tied with the 1948 team for the longest win streak in history. Now, they are one of just two clubs in franchise history to reach 14. The 15-gamer in 1946 included a red-hot stretch from Ted Williams, who was the American League MVP for the pennant-winning Sox that year. During the streak, he hit .442 (23-for-52) with four homers, six doubles, 18 RBIs and a 1.397 OPS.
The last Red Sox team to win 15 games in a row did so over the course of a string of games that included two doubleheaders and matchups against the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns. The WAR leaders on that team, which finished 104-50-2, were Williams, Johnny Pesky, Tex Hughson, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio.
“A lot of really good ballclubs that have come through here, too,” said Durbin. “When it’s all said and done — and hopefully, it’s not done for a little while — we’ll look back on it and look at how cool of a run it was."
With an extended hot streak that has seen them go 21-5 in their last 26 games and 19-2 in their last 21, the Red Sox are a season-high three games over .500 and have a 1 ½ game lead over the Rangers for the third and final American League Wild Card spot. The last month has completely changed the discussion about the second half of the season from trading veterans and firing decision-makers to likely adding pieces at the deadline and pushing for the playoffs.
That grand turnaround is the main storyline to follow. But it’s rare that an organization that has been around for 126 years enters a day on the verge of true franchise history.
“It would mean a lot, for sure,” said first baseman Willson Contreras. “We are trying to play the same way every day. We are thriving and trying to win as much as we can because we know we have to take advantage of anything.
“We are relentless. We are resilient. We’re looking forward to keep going this way ... If it happens, it would be great for us and we’ll have to celebrate that. If it doesn’t, we have to keep going.”
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