The Red Sox were not exactly going all-out to win this game, submitting a lineup including almost exclusively bench players. That didn’t matter, because this team still finds a way to win. Chris Sale got the start and he was effective, though inefficient. He was the story of this game, and you’ll get details of his start below, but somehow this lineup scored seven runs. What?
If we’re being honest with ourselves, there was really only one portion of this game with which we were concerned, and that was Chris Sale on the mound.