COMMENTARY
In the ninth inning of Wednesday’s Red Sox loss, NESN’s Dave O’Brien and Dennis Eckersley did a little back-of-the-scorecard math. Combining the seven runs the Cleveland Indians scored in their last two innings of Tuesday night’s comeback with the 14 runs they racked up in the first seven innings of Wednesday’s series rubber match made for a 21-run outburst. They didn’t reason this part of it out, but that would match the worst nine innings pitched by a Red Sox staff since the 2001 season.
“Twenty-one runs in 11 innings,” Eckersley quipped, crediting the Sox for holding the Indians on 14 while you were watching the Bruins.