Perhaps some of you are worried about Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello. You worry that last year’s brilliant, Cy Young Award-winning season was some kind of goofy hardball fluke, that it was all smoke and mirrors, that he’s not really that good, that . . .
Whoa.
Relax.
It is true that Pretty Ricky wasn’t much in the looks department in the Red Sox’ 5-4 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays last night at Fenway Park. He lasted only six innings and allowed five runs — though to be fair only three of those runs were earned because, of course, none of the 187 bodies the Sox have stuck at third base this season can play the position, last night’s hot-corner cadaver being Josh Rutledge.