Please don’t let him hit a lead-off home run. Please don’t let him hit a lead-off home run. Please don’t let him hit a lead-off home run.
Well, that sucked. When Mookie Betts popped out in his first at-bat and Alex Verdugo homered in his, after Verdugo homered, I thought the baseball gods were looking down upon us, all but guaranteeing a win. Instead, the Sox bats went quiet, the bullpen coughed up the lead, and a disappointing loss ensued.
Hopefully, we can start to put the Betts trade behind us. It happened, it’s not going to change.