COMMENTARY
The Red Sox arrived in Chicago just 3.5 games better than AL-worst Baltimore, with a run differential of minus-23. In four games at Guaranteed Rate Field, they had a 5-run inning, a 7-run inning, and a 9-run inning, which is why they’ll go to Baltimore with a run differential of zero and just 2.5 games out of a wild card berth.
If not for one high slider from Ryan Brasier on Thursday night, they’d also roll into the Inner Harbor winners of seven straight and better than .500.
“I made a bad pitch,” Brasier told reporters after a 6-4 walkoff loss on Nicky Delmonico’s home run, “and he did what he was supposed to do with it.