On a team featuring a number of young, largely unproven players, Sonny Gray and Aroldis Chapman are the wise old men of the Red Sox.
The 36-year-old Gray is in his 14th season and approaching 2,000 career innings. He threw six of his better ones against the Phillies on Wednesday night, allowing one run in a game the struggling Sox held on to win, 3-1.
Chapman, 38, got the final three outs for his ninth save this season and No. 376 for his career. That’s one away from tying Joe Nathan for 10th all-time.
Gray’s hardest fastball was 92.9 miles per hour. Chapman’s heater ranged between 94.1 and 99.8 m.p.h. But that’s one of the great things about baseball, seeing two players do the same job in completely different ways.
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