{"id":54547,"date":"2025-06-09T03:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=54547"},"modified":"2025-06-09T03:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:27:05","slug":"alex-cora-appeared-shocked-by-rafael-deverss-decision-to-stop-running-to-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=54547","title":{"rendered":"Alex Cora Appeared Shocked By Rafael Devers’s Decision to Stop Running to First"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rafael Devers stopped running when DJ LeMahieu fielded his grounder. \/ @Lucasparmenter2<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rafael Devers has been the Boston Red Sox’s designated hitter all season after a fairly notable\u00a0discussion during spring training\u00a0about who would be the starting third baseman. Devers, who was the team’s regular third baseman when healthy over the last six seasons,\u00a0was replaced by Alex Bregman.<\/p>\n

While that wasn’t the outcome that Devers originally wanted, it has not affected him at the plate where he’s leading the American League in RBI and walks while maintaining the 10th best OPS in baseball coming into Sunday’s game against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n

And it’s because this happened against the Yankees on ESPN that anyone not watching the NBA Finals on Sunday night probably saw him stop running as soon as a ground ball he hit was fielded by DJ LaMahieu.<\/p>\n

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