It was the same story, just a different day — almost nothing went right for the Red Sox on Mother’s Day.
Michael Wacha, who’s been the Sox’s best pitcher so far this season, was scratched and placed on the 15-day IL with left side soreness an hour and a half before first pitch. That was unexpected, but the routine annoyances appeared too. The Red Sox played sloppy defense at times and came up aggravatingly short with runners in scoring position during an unsurprising and uninspiring 3-2 loss to the White Sox.
The Sox wasted no time creating scoring opportunities that they absolutely did not plan on converting.