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Red Sox 4, Cubs 2: On to Miami and the 2018 regular season

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — If you missed the ESPN broadcast of the Cubs’ 4-2 loss to the Red Sox Tuesday afternoon, you missed some amazing baseball hilarity.

Given the meaninglessness of this game, ESPN put a microphone on Boston outfielder Mookie Betts — while he was in the field. Obviously you’d never do this in a regular-season game, but in a spring game? Why not?

Betts spent a fair amount of time bantering with Karl Ravech, Tim Kurkjian and Eduardo Perez about his golf game, but then with two out in the top of the third inning, Kris Bryant laced a ball down the right-field line, and.