For the fifth time in the last six years, the Red Sox will be on the outside looking in during the postseason.
Boston’s slim odds of punching a ticket to October baseball were finally snuffed out Wednesday with the Red Sox’ 6-1 loss to the Blue Jays, a crushing end to a second-half slide where Boston went 27-37 after the All-Star Break.
But speaking after Boston’s loss to Toronto, Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas tried to draw the silver lining out yet another frustrating summer.
“It was good this year to get our teeth kicked in a little bit,” Casas told reporters, as transcribed by NESN.