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Jarren Duran delivers in 10th as Sox sweep Yanks

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Jarren Duran singled in Masataka Yoshida to finish off a three-run 10th as the Red Sox edged the Yankees 5-4 on Sunday Night Baseball to complete a four-game sweep at Fenway Park.

The Red Sox blew a masterful performance from Sonny Gray by giving up two runs in the ninth and then gave up two more on Wilyer Abreu’s second mistake in two innings in the 10th. However, the offense came through against Fernando Cruz in the bottom of the 10th. Anthony Siegler singled even after taking an automatic strike at the beginning of his at-bat, and pinch-hitter Masataka Yoshida followed with a double that gave him just his second RBI of the month. Tseng-Che Cheng then tied the game with a sac fly, and Duran followed with a liner to right with no one home, as the Yankees had gone to a two-man outfield. It was Duran’s second at-bat off the bench, as he didn’t start against lefty Carlos Rodón. He’s hitting just .156/.181/.244 with 33 strikeouts this month.

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Nate Eaton will lead off and play left field for the Red Sox on Wednesday against the Rockies.

It makes sense after Eaton went 3-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored, and two RBI in a win on Tuesday. The Red Sox will use that to give Jarren Duran a day off and put Connor Wong at designated hitter. While Duran has 12 home runs and 11 steals in 72 games this season, he’s also slashing just .199/.258/.366 and has just a 67 wRC+.
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Jarren Duran went 2-for-5 with a solo home run in a loss to the Blue Jays on Tuesday.

That was Duran’s 12th home run and 37th RBI of the season in what has been a rough year for the 29-year-old. Duran is hitting just .214/.270/.398 on the season and has gone 10-for-51 (1.96) with a 19/0 K/BB ratio since June 1st. The 12 home runs and 11 steals make it tough to drop him in most fantasy leagues, but he’s not somebody you need to hold onto in really shallow formats.
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Jarren Duran blasted a two-run homer on Saturday, lifting the Red Sox to a 6-3 win over the Rangers.

Duran provided some additional breathing room for Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman by crushing a no-doubter into the right-field seats at Fenway Park against Rangers reliever Peyton Gray in the top of the ninth inning. It was his 11th big fly of the season and first time leaving the yard in nine games dating back to May 31.
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Mickey Gasper is hitting leadoff for the second consecutive game on Saturday against the Rangers.

Gasper finds himself at DH and atop Boston’s lineup after going 1-for-5 with a run scored during the club’s 10-run outburst during Friday’s series opener at Fenway Park. The unheralded 30-year-old backstop has hit .272/.326/.346 with zero homers and five RBI in 90 plate appearances since coming up from Triple-A Worcester in mid-May. He can be safely ignored in most fantasy leagues. His presence atop the lineup is a more significant hit to Jarren Duran’s immediate fantasy appeal than anything else. It also seems to render Masataka Yoshida completely irrelevant as a bench bat.
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Mickey Gasper is hitting leadoff for the Red Sox in Friday’s game against the Rangers.

It’s Gasper’s first leadoff appearance all year, though he did hit in the two-hole at times in May. Gasper is batting .154/.241/.231 in 29 June plate appearances, so it’s not like he’s red hot either. Jarren Duran has been dropped to fifth in the lineup as a result of this shakeup.
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Jarren Duran delivered an RBI single in Tuesday’s loss to the Rays.

Duran put Boston ahead early with a run-scoring single to center field with two outs in the third inning. It was his lone hit in four at-bats out of the leadoff spot. The 29-year-old outfielder is hitting just .138 (4-for-29) with one RBI and one steal in seven games since the start of June. Not great. The cold spell comes on the heels of a hot stretch where he went deep six times in 11 games.
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Jarren Duran stayed hot on Sunday in Cleveland, finishing 1-for-3 with a homer, two walks, and two runs scored as the Red Sox beat the Guardians 9-4.

Duran’s homer was his 10th of the year and the sixth in his past 11 games. He won’t stay quite this hot for long, as his recent streak has coincided with a mid-30s strikeout percentage and a BABIP north of .450. Still, it’s encouraging to see after an offseason of trade rumors and a slow start to 2026. Duran started and hit leadoff in every May game the Red Sox played, a role that suited him well in his career year back in 2024.
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Jarren Duran went 2-for-6 with a three-run homer Saturday as the Red Sox bested the Guardians 9-1 on.

This was a tight game until the end. The Red Sox got one insurance run in the eighth to make it 3-1 and then broke the game open in the ninth, with Duran’s homer concluding the scoring. Duran is 16-for-46 with five homers and 13 RBI in his last 10 games, raising his OPS from .548 to .675.
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Jarren Duran went 2-for-5 with a two-run homer in Boston’s 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday.

Duran might be heating up with homers in two straight and multi-hit performances in three of his past four. He moved back to leadoff before Roman Anthony went on the IL and has remained in the top spot of the order in every May game. Duran seems unlikely to repeat the career year he put together in 2024, but his performance to date is below even the mildest of expectations coming into the year. Many of his key metrics are stable, but his strikeout rate is ticking up alongside a sweet-spot rate that has plummeted.
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Jarren Duran went 2-for-3 with two walks, a double, a home run, three RBI, and a stolen base in a 7-1 win over the Royals on Tuesday.

What a game from Duran, who really needed a big performance like this. The 29-year-old is still slashing just .189/.262/.331 on the season, but he does have five home runs and 10 steals. His three-run blast in the ninth inning gave the Red Sox a big cushion and allowed them to rest closer Aroldis Chapman. We’re going to need to see a few more games like this to say that Duran has truly turned things around, but he does at least seem like a good bet to replicate his 16 home runs and 24 steals from last season.

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Nick Lodolo tossed five scoreless innings and got a no-decision against the Brewers on Monday.

Lodolo gave up one hit, walked four and struck out four. Injuries have limited the 28-year-old left-hander to just 10 starts so far this season. The bigger problem might be that Lodolo has a 5.05 ERA and 4.80 xFIP in those starts. Difficult to trust, Lodolo will face the Orioles at home this weekend.
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Robert Gasser allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings and got a no-decision in the Brewers’ 5-3 victory over the Reds on Monday.

Gasser gave up seven hits, walked one and struck out five. A single, a walk and a double got the Reds their first run in the first inning. Two more came against Gasser in the fifth inning when Elly De La Cruz hit a two-run home run. Gasser has a 4.54 ERA. He’s lined up to face the Diamondbacks at home this weekend.
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Yankees optioned RHP Yerry De los Santos to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

The Yankees will make a corresponding move prior to Tuesday’s game against Detroit. The 28-year-old was charged with two unearned runs over two innings during Monday’s series opener. He’s posted a pristine 1.04 ERA across 8 2/3 innings in the majors this season.
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