Playing nine innings while being grateful that Xander Bogaerts’s delayed flight isn’t the kind where passengers get re-accommodated …
- Six games, three wins, and three losses into the season, and it’s already gotten weird. Xander Bogaerts has two hits – or twice as many as Mookie Betts. Sandy Leon has more home runs – one – than Betts, Bogaerts, and Hanley Ramirez combined. The entire roster has as many home runs, three, as the Astros’ George Springer has leading off games. The flu has knocked at least five players out of commission at some point and led to the fumigation of at least two locker rooms in their wake.