Revenge is a dish best served cold, as they say. The Red Sox seemed to take their series loss last weekend personally, as they demolished the Pale Hose on Friday night, 10-3. White Sox pitching was utterly incapable of keeping Boston bats at bay, giving up a 10-spot, with the Red Sox hitting three home runs and seven total extra base hits. Starter Martín Pérez pitched only three innings before being lifted, with was was later said to be left forearm tightness.
Picking up the action in the bottom of the first, Rafael Devers stepped to the plate and reminded everyone that he is in fact still Rafael Devers, as he crushed a 74 mph curveball to the deepest part of the park for a ground-rule double.