Red Sox Rookies Tolle, Bennett Near Career-High Innings With 8 Starts Left

1 articles · Updated · Sports Illustrated · Aug 11

Payton Tolle and Jake Bennett are one start away from career highs in innings pitched, even though Boston still has eight or nine regular-season games left for each in a pennant race.
Tolle has logged 107 innings against a previous high of 108 1/3, while Bennett is at 116 against 117, putting both young lefties on track to exceed prior workloads immediately.
That buildup has come under a heavy schedule: Tolle has made six of 19 starts on four days' rest and Bennett five of 13, an aggressive pace for rookies aged 23 and 25.
Boston now faces a balancing act down the stretch, needing to preserve two effective starters—Tolle with a 3.30 ERA and Bennett at 3.17—while managing them for a possible postseason run.