At 3:05 p.m. ET on Sunday, Major League Baseball’s 30 teams began their 162nd and final games of the 2025 regular season.

In Boston, the Red Sox and Detroit Tigers duked it out for seeding, both teams having clinched their respective playoff berths in the first two games of the series.

The Red Sox scored first and enough to win 4-3, take the series, and clinch the No. 5 seed in the AL playoff bracket.

A manager could not have asked for much more from a pitcher called up that day from Triple-A than what José De León gave Alex Cora on Sunday: length, and thereby, rest for the regular pitching staff as the Red Sox prepare for their first playoff run in four years.

“Innings. Hopefully he can go — I talked to him yesterday, I said you got 100 (pitches)? He’s like ‘I’ve got 120,’” Cora said

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