COMMENTARY
Bad teams find ways to lose games.
It’s an old baseball truism, right up there with “you can never have too much pitching,” “you need to be strong up the middle,” and “Red Sox season-ticket holders and past ticket buyers have been receiving a flurry of emails this spring from the ball club announcing discount offerings.”
Suffice to say, the return to Fenway Park did not go well. The return to American League East play didn’t either. Let us count the ways.
On Tuesday, the Opening Day pregame swallowed up by the Trevor Story and Nick Pivetta losses, was a defensive disaster, with Jarren Duran’s straight miss in the left-field corner the flashpoint in three unearned runs.