If you didn’t watch the game, and just saw the final score, you’d think this had been a reasonably close game.
It wasn’t.
An “efficient dismantling” was Brian Anderson’s summation — and it was apt through seven innings, as the Rays put up runs in nearly every frame while holding the Red Sox to a single second inning score. But then Kevin Cash chose to rest his relievers and hand this game over to the recently recalled (and I assume soon to be DFA’d) David Hess, and yadda yadda yadda the final score was 12-7.
But we won’t start with the brutally long 54 pitch, six run Hess appearance.