At this point, what else can you say about the run the Red Sox are on?
They fell behind by four runs after the third inning. They were down to their final strike in the ninth. They watched the White Sox take the lead in the 10th, 11th and 12th innings. And somehow, every single time, they found a way to answer before ultimately sending Fenway Park into a frenzy.
In the bottom of the 13th, Caleb Durbin finally ended the madness, lining an RBI single to give Boston a wild 12-11 walkoff victory over Chicago on Thursday night.
The Red Sox have won eight straight games, improved to 63-51 and completed a 6-0 sweep of the season series against the White Sox.
Before Durbin could win it, Brayan Bello gave Boston its first clean extra inning of the night, keeping Chicago’s automatic runner from scoring in the top of the 13th.
But before all that could happen, the Red Sox needed comeback after comeback just to get there.
Trailing 7-6 entering the bottom of the ninth, Connor Wong doubled off the Green Monster to start the inning. Pinch-runner Eli White advanced to third on Nick Sogard’s sacrifice bunt, but Ceddanne Rafaela struck out to leave Boston down to its final out.
Wilyer Abreu got down to his final strike before lining a 98.9 mph sinker into center field to tie the game, 7-7.
Former Red Sox prospect Chase Meidroth appeared to deliver the knockout blow in the 10th when he launched a two-run homer off Aroldis Chapman, giving Chicago a 9-7 lead. It was Meidroth’s second homer of the night and the first multi-homer game of his career.
What seemed like a haymaker from Meidroth only knocked the Red Sox down briefly and they answered immediately.
Andruw Monasterio doubled home Abreu to cut the deficit to one before Anthony Seigler’s sacrifice fly tied it again.
Monasterio extended his career-long on-base streak to 18 games, dating back to July 11. It’s the second-longest streak by a Red Sox player this season, trailing only Willson Contreras’ 19-game run in May.
Chicago went back ahead in the 11th when Garrett Whitlock’s wild pitch moved automatic runner Miguel Vargas to third, allowing him to score on Colson Montgomery’s sacrifice fly.
Down a run, it never felt like the Red Sox were down for the count and once again, they responded.
Chad Tracy is gassed like the rest of us 😂
“Everybody’s exhausted. And it feels much better to be exhausted with a win than it does if you’ve lost.”
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— Tyler Milliken (@tylermilliken_) August 7, 2026
Abreu drove a sacrifice fly to center to tie it at 10. Boston then loaded the bases with one out and had an opportunity to finally end it, but Monasterio popped out and Jarren Duran flied out.
The White Sox scored for the third consecutive extra inning in the 12th, but Duran prevented further damage by throwing a runner out at the plate. That proved enormous when Jake Rogers, acquired from Baltimore in the Adley Rutschman blockbuster Monday, delivered a game-tying sacrifice fly in the bottom half.
Then Bello put up a much needed zero, and Durbin finally sent everyone home.
“You guys can ask me questions about the game,” Chad Tracy said after the game. “I don’t know if I’ll quite remember what inning certain things happened. It was unbelievable. They just did not want to lose, so it was incredible.”
