Maybe you didn’t notice what Xander Bogaerts’ home run in the seventh meant. Cooperstown won’t be asking for the ball and few fans will be telling their kids where they were when it happened. So, maybe it was just the moment that took the Red Sox from a likely win to an almost certain win. But it was also the end of Nick Goody’s 20.1 consecutive innings streak without allowing an earned run. It was the end of Nick Goody’s quiet run as the most dominant reliever on the team.
As a team, the Tribe has the third best bullpen in baseball by fWAR, just behind the Yankees and Rays, and five individuals populate the top 75 in fWAR (minimum 20 IP applied for all reliever leaderboards).