I’m so tired. The Red Sox and Angels went 15 innings on Friday into Saturday. The Red Sox had the lead for most of the first nine innings before blowing it in the ninth thanks to poor control and bad defense. They would come back to win, though, thanks to Mookie Betts’ second homer of the night and a phenomenal performance from Andrew Cashner and Darwinzon Hernandez in extras. Go get some sleep.
The Red Sox pitchers were in for a long couple of days for the first two games of this series by design. It’s not due to the Angels being any kind of great lineup — they have tremendous talent in the middle including the best player in the game, but overall they’re more of an average group — but just the fact that they didn’t have stretched out starters in these games.