Bays Bash Bruins in Game 7, Advance to Conference Finals

Sammy Linedriv - TABL Beat Writer

Baseball can break your heart in silence, one swing at a time. In a series that had given fans six tight, unforgettable nights, Game Seven was the rare exception: decisive, lopsided, and utterly stunning.

The San Francisco Bays, left for dead just days ago, completed their comeback with authority, routing the Boston Bruins 7–2 at Fenway Park to capture the American Conference Championship Series.

Ben Lively, the unlikely hero, delivered the game of his life. The veteran right-hander carried a no-hitter into the sixth, commanding the strike zone with precision and poise. By the time Boston finally broke through, the game, and the series, were already slipping away.

For four innings, Hunter Greene looked every bit the ace Boston needed him to be, matching zeroes with Lively and working out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth. But the fifth inning unraveled quickly and completely. With one out, Jurickson Profar worked a walk, Ketel Marte was clipped by a pitch, and Luke Raley stepped to the plate.

One pitch later, the ball was gone, a towering blast into the right-field seats that silenced Fenway and ignited the Bays’ dugout.

Greene never recovered. Teoscar Hernández followed with a walk, and Cody Bellinger crushed another long drive, this one into the bullpen. In the span of five batters, the Bays had turned a tense duel into a 5–0 statement.

Boston mustered only three hits all night, one of them a two-run homer from Michael Busch, but never mounted a true threat. Giancarlo Stanton’s struggles continued, finishing the series hitless, while the Bays kept pouring it on. Lane Thomas and Hernández added solo home runs late, each punctuating a performance that felt less like luck and more like inevitability.

When the final out settled into right field, San Francisco’s players poured from the dugout in disbelief and delight. They had done it, stormed back from a 2–1 deficit to take the series on the road against one of the league’s most complete teams.

Ben Lively, grinning beneath his cap, accepted the game ball and the hugs that came with it. “That’s why you play,” he said. “You never know when it’s your turn to write the story.”

For Boston, the story ends far sooner than expected. The arms were strong, the numbers impressive, but the swings didn’t come when they mattered.

For San Francisco, it’s the opposite, a team that kept finding new heroes, new answers, new life. The Bays move on, their confidence high and their bats loud, waiting to see whether it will be Miami or San Diego across the diamond next.

W – Lively (1–0)

L – Greene (0–2)

HR – Raley, Bellinger, Thomas, Hernández (SFB); Busch (BOS)