{"id":67899,"date":"2025-07-12T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=67899"},"modified":"2025-07-12T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:40:15","slug":"red-soxs-alex-bregman-gives-rare-label-to-ceddanne-rafaela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=67899","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox&#8217;s Alex Bregman Gives Rare Label To Ceddanne Rafaela"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-2037701\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??-->Friday night felt like a movie at Fenway Park, and Ceddanne Rafaela was the main character for the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Rafaela hit a walk-off blast over the Green Monster to give Boston its eighth-straight victory. The 24-year-old center fielder sat back on a down-and-in slider from Tampa Bay Rays closer Pete Fairbanks and lifted the Red Sox to the apex of their season so far.<\/p>\n<p>Rafaela is in a special zone right now. Over the last seven games, he\u2019s 12-for-27 (.444) with four home runs, four doubles, 14 RBI, and eight runs.<\/p>\n<p>Red Sox All-Star third baseman Alex Bregman, who returned to the lineup on Friday, didn\u2019t hold back in praising Rafaela after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel he\u2019s been one of the best players in baseball over the last month and a half, two months, doing it in every phase of the game,\u201d Bregman said, per MassLive\u2019s Christopher Smith.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bregman is partially to credit for Rafaela\u2019s hot stretch, as a new report from The Athletic\u2019s Jen McCaffrey revealed earlier on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCeddanne Rafaela\u2019s .989 OPS since late May coincided with cage work he did with Alex Bregman,\u201d McCaffrey wrote. \u201cHe hears Bregman\u2019s voice in his head at the plate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per McCaffrey, Rafaela said of Bregman that, \u201cEvery time he comes talk to me I just go do what he says and something good happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rafaela is now batting .271 with a .791 OPS, 13 home runs, 46 RBI, and 12 stolen bases to go along with elite defense. His All-Star snub is suddenly all the more glaring.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If the Red Sox end up making the playoffs, it may end up being this win streak \u2014 defined most memorably by Rafaela\u2019s big moment \u2014 that turned the 2025 season around. Boston leapfrogged the Rays in the American League East standings with the victory and are now 4.5 games back of the division lead entering Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a torrid stretch at the plate, Boston Red Sox outfielder Ceddanne Rafaela received a head-turning compliment from Alex Bregman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":67900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Sox&#039;s Alex Bregman Gives Rare Label To Ceddanne Rafaela - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=67899\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Red Sox&#039;s Alex Bregman Gives Rare Label To Ceddanne Rafaela - 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