All good things must come to an end. That’s the way the cookie crumbles when you play 162 games.
Red Sox bats went pretty quiet as Taijuan Walker just walked all over this Boston lineup, tossing six frames of one-run ball with six strikeouts. Uncharacteristically for the Sox, as OB and Youk noted on NESN’s broadcast in the 9th, they drew no walks. I don’t know if it was a combination of trying to be aggressive on a pitcher who got shelled on his last outing out against the Dodgers, but Walker’s use of a splitter low and away to a predominately left-handed lineup trotted out by Alex Cora served as a perfect putaway pitch.