BOSTON -- The pitch from Carter Capps that wound up deciding Tuesday night's game between the Red Sox and Marlins came in to Xander Bogaerts -- an Esurance MLB All-Star Game Final Vote candidate who needs support after the first ballot update, which has him in fifth place among American League hopefuls -- at 99 mph. At least that's what the radar gun reading was on the offering Bogaerts ripped into right-center for a rare three-run single that led the Red Sox to a 4-3 victory over the Marlins.
But the reality is that the 3-2 pitch with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh looked far speedier than that.