Here’s what I love about this Rays team: in any other year, going up against a team like the Red Sox with a grand slam like a black mark on the score sheet, the game would feel over. Not so, with this 2019 club.
Even after the dismal turn of events in the second inning, when Charlie Morton walked in a run with a hit-by-pitch to Sandy Leon, and then gave up the aforementioned grand slam to Andrew Benintendi (his first career slam), Morton stayed on. He cleaned things up, he righted the ship. After something like that, one might expect him to get pulled, but instead he went on to give up no further runs for the rest of his innings, going six, and collecting nine strikeouts.