The Red Sox are playing the kind of baseball that makes an old scorekeeper reach for the record books. Boston beat the Chicago White Sox 2-1 on Thursday to complete a three-game sweep and run its winning streak to six, the club's longest since a seven-game surge in the summer of 2025 and the longest active streak in the majors.
The run has been a coast-to-coast affair — three wins in Anaheim, three more in Chicago — and the arithmetic is starting to add up to something. Boston has won 11 of its last 13 and outscored opponents 35-10 across the six-game streak. Thursday broke the pattern only in its margin: after a stretch of comfortable finals, this one was a one-run grind, the kind of tense, low-scoring afternoon that tends to define whether a hot team is merely feasting or genuinely good.
Caleb Durbin provided the offense that mattered, a two-run home run that accounted for both Boston runs. Patrick Sandoval handled the rest, working into the sixth with one earned run and five strikeouts on the afternoon, then handing a slim lead to a bullpen that has quietly become the streak's backbone. Garrett Whitlock and Justin Slaten bridged the innings without a blemish, and Aroldis Chapman closed it out in the ninth.
Context keeps the celebration honest. Boston is 43-48, still 11 games behind Tampa Bay and firmly in the division's second tier. A team does not erase a losing record in two weeks. But there is something structurally different about a run built on pitching depth and one-run resolve rather than a single scorching bat, and the Red Sox will carry it home hoping Fenway's grass agrees — their home record this season has been the one stubborn flaw in the ledger.
For fantasy purposes, Sandoval is the streamer worth trusting while the command holds, and Chapman's grip on the ninth makes him a stable source of saves on a team suddenly winning close games. Durbin is a deeper-league flier riding a hot stretch rather than an every-week starter; treat the power as a bonus, not a baseline.
