COMMENTARY
It’s hard to lose a game the way the Red Sox lost on Thursday. Genuinely hard.
Teams that accumulate 15 hits in a game are 130-10 this season. Teams that reach base at least 18 times, as the Red Sox did against Toronto, are 302-32. Each of those is nine-out-of-ten stuff, and yet that’s somehow only a part of the tale.
Going 3 for 20 with 10 strikeouts with runners in scoring position, in the same game where your entire starting lineup had a hit, is hard. Not scoring after a leadoff triple, then the next inning not scoring with the bases loaded and none out, is even harder.