During the ninth inning of Tuesday's 7-2 loss to the Rangers, NESN's Dave O'Brien said:
Nothing ever good happens from a leadoff walk.
What prompted that bit of commentary was the fact that Craig Kimbrel had walked the first Rangers batter in the top of the ninth and Texas had quickly scored four runs.
Of course, had O'Brien looked down at his scorecard, he would have seen that only four innings earlier, in the bottom of the fifth, the Red Sox's leadoff man had walked. Three groundouts later, Hanley Ramirez was stranded at third base and a "0" went up on the scoreboard for Boston.