TRUST ISSUES: Boston Red Sox Rotation EXPOSED—Can Patrick Sandoval and Ranger Suarez DELIVER in October?

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Can the Boston Red Sox starting rotation actually be trusted for a potential playoff run?

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Hello and welcome to Lockdown Red Sox, your daily Boston Red Sox podcast. I'm your host, Gabby Maljanian, and today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. College football Saturdays are already packed with reasons to get excited, and this season, FanDuel is giving fans even more ways to get in on every matchup. Join all of the action at FanDuel.com. Hello, hello. Happy Thursday. Welcome to the show. I apologize to those of you who are typical morning commute listeners. I promise I will get back on that schedule. Just some late Boston nights this week from games that have gotten me back late and it ends up just being super exhausting and I am unable to end up getting those episodes out for the early morning commute. But I will be back on that schedule very, very soon overall. So thank you for bearing with me, especially those who listen every single day. Genuinely really appreciate all of you. But on today's show, Sadam Raffaella exited last night's game early. I'm going to be giving an update on him. Plus Roman Anthony coming in hot since coming off the IL and what that means for the Red Sox. Plus the starting rotation. Can they actually be trusted? And the reason I asked this question is because the Red Sox lost yet another game last night, eight to three. to the Seattle Mariners. And this has become over the last few games, a pattern of the Red Sox giving up lots of runs. They really aren't getting the pitching that they need overall. And yesterday's game was another example of that. Patrick Sandoval made the start for the Red Sox. and he retired the side in the first two innings, but then he ran into a struggle, letting the Mariners take a 4-0 lead. The first run scored on a wild pitch, and then he allowed an RBI single to Julio Rodriguez to drive in another run, and then Josh Naylor scored Seattle's third run on another RBI single, and then there was a bad throw from Jaron Duran that allowed