COMMENTARY
Turns out Rafael Devers cannot beat the Yankees by himself. Red Sox brass would be wise to write that down for a potential arbitration rebuttal next spring.
I kid, of course. Franchy Cordero helped out on Thursday night as well, though the two rockets he hit just went for a fifth-inning double and a sixth-inning lineout that just about took Gerrit Cole’s glove off.
Not quite Devers’s two home runs, Nos. 5 and 6 for him off the all-world Cole. Oh, and there was also Cordero’s misplayed pop fly that ultimately scored the critical New York run in a 6-5 loss.