COMMENTARY
They were always going to be linked, Michael Chavis and Dustin Pedroia. The injury to the latter necessitated the former, no matter what this opening major league cameo for the 23-year-old ends up being. What happened at the end of a lost Tuesday against the Detroit Tigers just further formalized it.
At some point after Chavis’s 441-foot, eighth-inning mortar stopped bounding on Lansdowne Street, a father and son picked it up and returned it. As is the custom, they requested a souvenir for their trouble. And as sometimes happens, said souvenir had nothing to do with the person who hit the baseball.