I’m writing this with low battery and no power at home, so I’ll make this section quick. This was a total embarrassment of a loss for the Red Sox with inexcusable defense leading to a total collapse after leading 7-1. The worst loss of the season.
This was a wild game between the Rays and the Red Sox, and it was weird pretty much right from the start. Chris Sale was on the mound for a long time in that first inning, needing about 25 minutes to get through an inning that saw a triple (which could have been caught by Alex Verdugo at the wall, though my personal opinion was that it was a more difficult play than I saw some make it out to be), three singles (two of which were of the infield variety), a walk, three strikeouts, and a foul tip that knocked the home plate umpire out of the game.