WBUR TODAY: In the running 🏃🏽♀️
❤️ Donate Monday, September 14, 2026 🌤️ Sunny, with a high of 76. Good Morning Boston, The Red Sox' Payton Tolle pitched an "immaculate inning" Sunday night, a first for the team in the first inning since Pedro Martinez in 2002. (Chris Sale had the most recent "immaculate inning" for the Sox in 2021.) Now, let's get to the news: You can't win run if you don't play: Registration for the 131st annual Boston Marathon opens today. And for the first time ever, 1,000 qualifying applicants who don't make the cut-off time for this year's race will have a chance to run through a special lottery introduced by the Boston Athletic Association. With the new lottery, "one still has to meet their standard, but if they aren't accepted through being one of the very fastest, they still have a chance," BAA President Jack Fleming told WBUR's John Bender. Why now? Marathon qualifying times are getting faster as tens of thousands of peo...
