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NEW YORK (AP) — Sonny Gray will have to save Boston’s season on the mound where his big league career derailed.
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career → have → mound
With the Red Sox trailing after losing the opener of the best-of-three Wild Card Series against the Yankees 9-0, Gray will face a fan base on Wednesday night that gave him the Bronx brush-off in 2017 and 2018.
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that → trail → 2017
“There’s a lot of people and a lot of players that can have one bump in the road and not get back on the tracks,” he said Tuesday.
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he → ’ → tracks
Approaching his 37th birthday, Gray tied for the major league lead with 18 wins this year along with a 2.72 ERA, his best in a full season.
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Gray → approach → season
He took a no-hit bid into the eighth inning against the Yankees at Fenway Park in June as the Red Sox completed a four-game sweep that sparked their turnaround from a 32-46 start to an 87-75 record and a playoff berth.
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that → take → record
Gray has pitched at Yankee Stadium twice since leaving the team and done well both times.
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Gray → pitch → team
Most recently, he pitched three-run ball over 6 1/3 innings in Boston’s 5-3 win in the Bronx on June 5.
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he → pitch → June
“He’s had a great career, and someone who I was never super comfortable facing,” Red Sox teammate Trevor Story said.
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Story → have → who
“He’s a pitcher to its finest degree.”
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He → ’ → degree
Gray reached a nadir in New York before rebounding.
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Gray → reach → York
He’s been an All-Star twice since and has 143 wins over 14 seasons.
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He → have → seasons
“Anytime he’s out there, we feel good about it,” Red Sox manager Chad Tracy said.
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Tracy → ’ → it
“But having him out there tomorrow, obviously the season’s on the line for us, and he can handle that.”
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he → have → that
He was 15-16 with a 4.52 ERA for the Yankees, who acquired him from Oakland in July 2017.
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who → acquire → July
He notoriously was dropped from the rotation in August 2018 after he smirked when fans booed as he walked off the Yankee Stadium mound in the third inning of a 7-5 loss to Baltimore.
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he → drop → Baltimore
Gray had a 6.98 ERA at Yankee Stadium in 2018 and a 3.17 ERA on the road.
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Gray → have → road
“It’s kind of like one of those things that you have a snowball or whatever, right?” Gray said.
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Gray → ’ → snowball
“There’s a snowball that kind of starts rolling down a hill.
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that → ’ → hill
If you don’t ever stop it, then the snowball just gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and it picks up traction and it just gets more snow.
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it → stop → snow
And it just continues to go down this thing.
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it → continue → thing
And then the bigger the snowball gets, the harder it is to stop it or take a step back.
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it → get → step
“And for me, it just took me to get away and get myself into a different environment and then reflect on those things.”
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it → take → things
Pitching for Cincinnati (2019-21), Minnesota (2022-23) and St. Louis (2024-25) revived his career.
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Pitching → pitch → career
Then he was traded to the Red Sox last November, putting him in position to pitch for the Yankees’ biggest rival.
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he → trade → rival
“New York was, it just wasn’t a good situation for me, wasn’t a great setup for me and my family,” he said during a December Zoom news conference.
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he → say → conference
“I never wanted to go there in the first place.”
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I → want → place
Now he’ll be back, trying to outpitch the Yankees’ Max Fried and extend the first-round series to a decisive third game.
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he → try → game
“I do know that playing here made me a stronger person, made me a better man, a better husband,” he said.
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he → know → ?
“Ultimately, it made me a better pitcher, a better baseball player.”
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me → make → ?
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