IMMACULATE: Boston Red Sox’s Payton Tolle DOMINATES—Postseason Trust GROWS After Rare Feat

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[upbeat music] Peyton Tully just did something no Red Sox pitcher had done to start a game since Pedro Martinez in 2002. But the craziest part, that might not even be the most important thing he showed us on Sunday. [upbeat music] You are Locked On Red Sox, your daily Boston Red Sox podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your team every day. Hello, welcome in to another episode of Locked On Red Sox, your daily Boston Red Sox podcast. I'm your host Gaby Maljanian, and the Red Sox took two out of three from the Kansas City Royals this weekend. They're now 82 and 68, and after losing three straight games between the Angels series and Friday night's opener, I think this was exactly the response we wanted to see. And I'm not just gonna recap these three games today, because there were three developments from this weekend that I think matter a lot more than simply just winning a series against Kansas City. Peyton Tully continues to look like he belongs in big games. The Red Sox lineup is getting healthier, and Ranger Suárez has now put together back-to-back dominant starts. So what exactly does that mean for the Red Sox pitching? All of that will be talked about on today's show. And let's start with the guy who had Fenway buzzing before Kansas City even put a ball in play on Sunday. Nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts. That's how Peyton Tully started Sunday's game, which ended up being moved back more than once. The original start time was 1:35. It got moved to 3:00, and then got pushed back to almost 5:00 PM because of the rain in Boston, but that didn't stop Peyton Tully from going out firing on all cylinders. An immaculate inning for him. Nick Lofton, strike three looking. Bobby Witt Jr., strike three swinging. Jack Cag Leone, strike three swinging. We're talking about studs, and he goes out there and throws nine pitches, sit down, sit down, sit down. And by the way, the last fastball to Cag Leone was 98 miles per hour. Welcome to Fenway Park, right? I mean, this was so cool, and here's how rare that immaculate inning was. Tully became the eighth pitcher in Red Sox history to throw an immaculate inning. The last Red Sox pitcher to do it was Chris Sale in 2021. But the favorite part of it all was Peyton Tully became the first Red Sox pitcher to throw an immaculate inning to begin a game since Pedro Martinez on May 18th, 2002. That's the company that we're talking about here for Peyton Tully. I'm obviously not comparing Tully to Martinez. I mean, come on, how do you compare Pedro to Tully? But any time you're doing something in a Red Sox uniform where the sentence ends with, "The last guy to do it was Pedro," you're having yourself a pretty good day, I'd say. But even though the immaculate inning was super cool, it's the six innings that he threw that matter more. The immaculate inning is gonna get the highlight. That's what's gonna be all over social media, and that's what everybody remembers. But what happened over the next five innings is more important, because the Royals eventually started putting runners on and reading Peyton