BOSTON — Manager Alex Cora wouldn’t say whether Kyle Harrison, the lefty who the Red Sox acquired from the Giants in the Rafael Devers trade, is the leading candidate to start Wednesday vs. Cleveland. “There’s a lot of guys that we’re considering,” Cora said Monday before Boston’s three-game series opener against the Guardians.

The Boston Red Sox did not promote Kristian Campbell to their active roster on Monday despite the rosters expanding to 28 players, a concerning sign for him.

Carlos Narváez had his first career pinch hit, a tiebreaking single in the fifth inning, Trevor Story had a strange homer that ticked the right fielder’s glove and then the foul pole, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-4 on Monday.

BOSTON — On September 1, with four weeks remaining in the 2025 season, the Red Sox are guaranteed nothing. They may be in good shape, statistically speaking, to end their postseason drought. Fangraphs had their chances of reaching the playoffs at 93.6 percent before Monday’s action, but again, that represents no certainty.

September has arrived, and with it the final month of the 2025 MLB season, as teams get set for playoff races to heat up across baseball.