Rangers must break this decade-long curse and kick the Red Sox while they're down

The Texas Rangers are headed to Boston, and they don't have a lot of good memories to draw on in the last 10 years of playing at Fenway Park. The Green Monster has been cruel to the team from the Lone Star State, and the club looks to change that with a weekend set in Beantown.

They will be met by an uncharacteristically poor Red Sox team that is currently in the cellar of the AL East at 27-39, and 13.5 games behind first-place Tampa Bay. What's even more unusual is that they are a league-worst 10-21 at Fenway this season. That is a winning percentage of under .350 and their worst mark through 31 games in 94 years.

The Rangers have to end their Fenway curse and jump on the Beantowners while they are down and out

Dating back to 2016, the Rangers are just 8-17 against the Sox at Fenway, and haven't been able to figure out the unique nooks and crannies of one of the oldest ballparks in the league. They haven't won a series in Boston in a decade. Josh Jung and company look to change that and knock some line drives off the monster and maybe hit a few over it onto Lansdowne Street. A few tucked inside Pesky's Pole in right field would be just fine, too.

The Rangers are finally .500 and have played some of their best baseball over the last two weeks. They will need to continue that brand of competitive play to take advantage of what is a poor Boston team in 2026 that has lost four in a row and has a -14 run differential.

They have struggled to score because of their lack of slug and OPS. They are 27th in MLB in both categories, ahead of only Cleveland in both in the American League. The Red Sox's 258 runs scored are dead last in the AL and second worst in the entire league.

Outside of the newly acquired Sonny Gray, who is 7-1 with a 3.20 ERA, none of the Red Sox starters are having a great season. Bryan Bello was struggling so badly that Boston demoted him to Triple-A, registering a 6.34 ERA and 1.67 WHIP in 61 innings pitched. The Rangers are scheduled to face Gray, Ranger Suarez, and rookie right-hander Connelly Early, who has been a bit of a pleasant surprise, and will present slightly more of a challenge.

Meanwhile, the Rangers should have starts from Jack Leiter, Jacob deGrom, and Nathan Eovaldi, who will be returning to the city where he earned the nickname "Big Game Nate" guiding the Sox to a World Series championship with a stellar playoff run in 2018.

The Rangers must jump on the Red Sox quickly and take advantage of how poorly they have played at Fenway in 2026. This is the year to end the futility in Boston if the Rangers are serious about being contenders. Doing so and vanquishing the long-standing Boston bugaboo could be the key to leaving Fenway with a record over .500 for the first time since April 25 and setting up a run on the division-leading Seattle Mariners.

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