Raffy Devers makes Cal Quantrill pay in Red Sox – Guardians clash
Well, Red Sox Nation, our string of the schedule against the dregs of the MLB is over for now and the fellas are about to start a run that could decide where the 2022 season goes. Tonight the team is in Cleveland in a Wild Card battle against the Guardians and boy has there already been some fireworks.
Early in the game, Cal Quantrill went toe-to-toe with Rafael Devers and it was damn near electric. In that first battle, the Cleveland righty won that round but then things got a little bit spicy. After Quantrill struck Devers out he stormed off the mound shouting and puffing his chest as if he just won the World Series. Little did he know, Devers wouldn’t take that lightly.
Raffy stood there in the batter’s box just watching in what could only be described as awe at the scene at hand. I don’t know about anyone else, but when I saw him staring Quantrill down it felt like a switch flipped and it was just a matter of time before he’d get his sweet revenge. Low and behold, the third inning would come along, and boy oh boy did our sweet young Rafael exact that very revenge.
Raffy's 17th homer was a BIG one 💪 pic.twitter.com/KpBreJPngJ
— Red Sox (@RedSox) June 25, 2022
The Red Sox slugger stepped into the batter’s box and, this time, he’d be the one celebrating. Quantrill tossed Devers a pair of cutters, the first one he didn’t get, the second one hasn’t landed yet.
That’s right! Big Scoops himself made sure that the Cleveland hurler knew that you shouldn’t celebrate before the game is over. He smashed his 17th homer on the season, and though he isn’t going to be in the Home Run Derby, he sure put on a show tonight.
I don’t think any of us should be surprised by what Rafael can do at the plate anymore and with good reason. He currently leads the American League in hits (92) and doubles (25) while being the driving force of the Red Sox offense. A big reason why the team has been able to storm back from that abysmal start to the season has been thanks to the bat of Rafael Devers.
This brings me to another point, why does this man get disrespected so damn much? In a recent segment done by MLB, he was left off the list of some of the best sluggers in the game right now. Excuse me? This dude is about to get breaded up and it’s because of what he does on the offensive side of things. He has been a beast since making his debut in 2017, and at 25 years old, he’s only getting better with plenty of career ahead of him.
Red Sox Nation is more than ready for the team to hand him what he’s more than earned and make it so his entire career is spent in Boston. As much as I want that to happen right away I don’t know if it will. I recently wrote that it was time and a majority of my belief still rests there but I can see them making Xander Bogaerts an offer first. His situation is far more pressing contractually but Raffy’s day is coming, and soon.
Now that we have all of that out of the way, let’s get back to the matter at hand. Don’t ever try and clown, Raffy Devers, because he’s going to take you 500ft to the damn moon. The slugger doesn’t miss when he gets a pitch that he likes and Cal Quantrill learned that the hard way tonight. Let that be a lesson to opposing pitchers around the league, you mess with Carita and he’s going to make you pay.