For eight innings, this was a different recap. A recap about the great ride of the Three Bs, version 2.0 (3.0?).
Then came the ninth, and it all changed.
The Three Bs I speak of, in this case, are Bogaerts, Bradley, and Betts. Not necessarily in that order. While Bradley's star has long since fallen from the heights of the other two, there was a brief moment in 2014 when he was still viewed as one of the team's best young talents and Mookie Betts had already proven himself. For that moment, the trio were future, before Bradley dropped off and we tried to shoehorn other names into the group like Blake Swihart and Andrew Benintendi.