Playing nine innings while wondering if Chaim “Not Going To Rob Peter To Pay Paul” Bloom knows he’s channeling Lou Gorman …
Red Sox
1. As frustrating as it is in a vacuum that Bloom, the Red Sox chief baseball officer, didn’t add anything other than a distressed-asset infielder at the trading deadline, I get his thinking … mostly.
The Red Sox are on the outside looking in for one of the three wild-card spots, and even with a roster that offers plenty of hope for the future, their overall wild inconsistency — they’ve lost four of five since moving a season-high nine games over .