The former Red Sox slugger leads a class of seven into the baseball hall on Sunday.

Boston allows its most runs in team history, with an inside-the-park grand slam on a misplayed fly ball just one of the lowlights.

Boston has several options with personnel heading into the second half of the season.

Chris Sale, 33, has made just 14 starts (including the playoffs) since the end of the 2019 season.

Boston went 20-6 in June without Sale and has been hurt more by other injuries and a lack of production from Franchy Cordero and Jarren Duran.

Sale, making his second start of the season, suffers a broken pinkie in Boston’s 13-2 loss to New York.

Boston blows a ninth-inning lead, but heads-up base running by Xander Bogaerts in the 11th gives the Red Sox a 5-4 victory.

After working on his control problems in the minors, the left-handed reliever made his first appearance of the season in the majors on Thursday.

Matt Carpenter homers twice and drives in seven runs, and Aaron Judge also goes deep twice.

Tampa Bay erases a 3-0 deficit with five runs in the seventh inning and gets its sixth straight win over Boston.