What started as a trickle quickly turned into a flood. Red Sox pitching played with fire all night long against the White Sox on Saturday, and got burned by a crooked inning. A five-run rally for Chicago in the bottom of the fourth erased a seven-run Boston outbreak from the inning before But the Red Sox hung tough and pulled out a 9-8 victory in extra innings on Saturday night in Chicago’s South Side behind a four-RBI night from Travis Shaw.
The Red Sox had to fight from behind yet again.
Connor Seabold made his MLB debut on the mound for Boston and was serviceable in limited action.