The Red Sox, currently witnessing and provoking the psychic breakdown of the Angels, can make it a four-game sweep tonight behind Nick Pivetta (9:38 p.m., NESN, MLBN out-of-market).
To say the Angels are down bad is to considerably understate it. On Tuesday, the team fired manager Joe Maddon after Monday night’s complete game 1-0 loss to Michael Wacha. Later that same day, Mike Trout went down with an injury. Yesterday, in a farcical attempt to spruce things up, every hitter came out to a Nickelback song. They still lost 1-0.
On the dimmest of bright sides, I guess, Shohei Ohtani is on the mound for them tonight, but if he suffered a season-ending injury on the first pitch it would not surprise me in the slightest.