Red Sox Win 14 Straight and Sit One Game From an 80-Year-Old Record

Red Sox Win 14 Straight and Sit One Game From an 80-Year-Old Record The hottest team in baseball keeps finding ways to win. On Monday night the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 at Fenway Park for their 14th consecutive victory. That puts them one win shy of the franchise record 15-game streak set all the way back in 1946, the pennant-winning season of Ted Williams and Johnny Pesky. Boston is now an absurd 19-2 since June 25, and the sportsbooks have taken notice. Durbin Delivers the Signature Moment Caleb Durbin owned the night. With the game tied and two outs in the bottom of the eighth, the scrappy third baseman jumped on a 1-0 cutter from Orioles reliever Tyler Wells and launched it high over the Green Monster. It was his 10th homer of the year, and it sent a packed house of 37,659 into a frenzy. Durbin's blast was fitting. After a brutal start to his season, he's been one of Boston's most reliable bats since late May, slashing .304/.353/.551 over his last 44 games with 10 doubles, nine homers, and 26 RBIs. When a lineup gets contributions like that from the bottom half, streaks like this one start to make sense. The win also carried extra historical weight. Baltimore came into Fenway riding a seven-game winning streak of its own, and per the Elias Sports Bureau, this was only the fifth time in the Expansion Era that two teams met while each carrying at least a seven-game run. Boston snapped Baltimore's streak and extended its own. How Rare Is This Streak? Fourteen straight wins is the longest streak in the majors this season. The Cubs have twice ripped off 10 in a row, but nobody else has come close to this. The last team to win 14 straight was the Brewers last August, and no club has hit 15 consecutive wins since the 2021 Cardinals ran off 17 straight in September. Rookie starter Payton Tolle set the tone Monday, striking out nine over 5.2 innings before tiring in the sixth. The workload question is real for Boston's young rotation down the stretch, with Tolle already at 89.2 innings against a career high of 108. Willson Contreras summed up the clubhouse mood simply: "This is fun. We are playing good baseball." The Betting Market Is Chasing Boston Here's where it gets interesting for bettors. Boston's World Series price has been tumbling all week. The Red Sox now sit around +2281 on Polymarket and +2500 at DraftKings, after being priced as a total afterthought earlier this summer. Covers noted the odds "have shot the BoSox up the board" as they rejoined the playoff race with a winning record. | Team | World Series Odds (7/21) | |---|---| | Dodgers | +233 | | Yankees | +614 | | Brewers | +999 | | Braves | +1251 | | Red Sox | +2281 | The classic dilemma applies: streaks compress prices fast, and buying a team at the peak of its heater is usually paying retail for a discount-rack roster. That said, Boston's run has been built on pitching, defense, and opportunistic offense rather than one hot bat, and the schedule gives them a chance to tie the 1946 record Tuesday night against these same Orioles. If you believe in the underlying quality, the number is still double what the Yankees are getting. SBA Takeaway The record chase is great theater, but the smarter angle is the futures market. Boston at +2500 with a 19-2 stretch behind them is a fair sprinkle if you think the rotation holds up, though the rookie innings limits are the biggest red flag nobody is pricing in. For Tuesday's game, expect an inflated line on Boston at home. History says fade the public on game 15 of a streak, but this team keeps making history look wrong. --- Related reading: - Red Sox Extend Win Streak to 12 as Wilyer Abreu Homers Twice Again - MLB Second-Half Betting Storylines: Who Will Make a Run? - Yoshinobu Yamamoto Tosses Masterpiece Complete Game Against Yankees