A bit of late night roster movement occurred after Friday’s game as Sam Travis was recalled to the major-league roster. He takes the place of the injured Mookie Betts who was recently put on the 10-day Disabled List.
Speculation was that Travis would indeed be the move after he was removed from the PawSox lineup in the middle of Friday night’s game. As it turns out, speculation is sometimes right.
As reported by NESN, Alex Cora chose Travis, because “there’s a lot of lefties we’ve gotta face” and “in spring training, he got our attention.