COMMENTARY
By all accounts, Sunday in Williamsport, Pa., was a highlight of the Red Sox season. Major league players embraced their day with the Little Leaguers in most every way, with the smile on Alex Cora’s face as he careened down the Lamade Stadium hill face-first a universal one.
“It was great. Something that I will always remember. This is baseball at its purest,” Cora told reporters postgame, right before he played some impromptu catch with a young fan. “It was an outstanding day, regardless of the results.”
Those results will fade from the memory, as the eighth inning Matt Barnes/John Schreiber blowup that keyed Sunday’s loss isn’t going to look much different from a dozen other nights that got away from a middling team.