A rainstorm cutting the Red Sox night short one fewer out than an official contest in the middle of a rare rally at the plate is definitely some sort of metaphor for this season as a whole, especially with a pending rainstorm on the slate for tomorrow’s season finale.
As luck would have it, in front of a dwindling audience, that’s exactly what happened.
The Red Sox did get some extra run support for Nate Eovaldi following a Christian Arroyo RBI single in the second, when Xander Bogaerts, surely someone who’s on the “every at-bat matters” list for the remainder of the season, hit an absolute monster of a grand slam in the fifth inning.