BOSTON — The Pink Sox didn’t play their sharpest 11-innings of baseball and it spoiled a powerful five-run come-from-behind rally towards the Guardians on Tuesday evening at Fenway Park.
Other than flashes of resiliency within the sixth and ninth innings, Boston paid the worth for one key miscue within the backside of the second inning. Triston Casas, after opening up the inning with a double, was caught making an attempt to steal third base, squandering an early-game scoring alternative for the Pink Sox.
The 24-year-old owned as much as the error and expressed his remorse after Boston suffered a 10-7 loss to Cleveland, dropping the Pink Sox to the underside of the American League East — and a division-worst 2-6 at house this season.
“One in every of my targets is once I go as much as hit is to attempt to make the at-bat for the man behind me as straightforward as attainable,” Casas defined. “I used to be making an attempt to get to 3rd base there with lower than one out. I knew (Wilyer) Abreu was battling with (Tanner) Bibee, and I assumed if I might get him in a scenario the place he simply needed to put the ball in play, that’d be his finest likelihood to get an RBI, get me in. However general, primarily based off the scenario and the place we had been within the recreation it was very poor judgment and it was a low-IQ baseball play for positive.”
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Whereas Casas did commit a expensive base-running miscue, the loss didn’t fall completely on the younger first baseman.
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There have been a number of possibilities all through the evening for Boston to keep away from the loss column, together with its 6-5 lead within the ninth inning. Nearer Kenley Jansen took the mound however coughed up the lead, sending the battle into further innings. Cleveland’s grit proved an excessive amount of for the Pink Sox to match, and a three-run Guardians rally within the eleventh inning shut the door for good.
That leaves a lot to mirror on past Casas’ mind fart on the bottom path.
“On the finish of the day, (expletive), we gotta play higher,” Pink Sox supervisor Alex Cora mentioned. “… That’s the underside line. 27 outs are too precious in his recreation. And the identical method we speak about protection that we can not give the opposition 27 outs, we can not do the identical defensively. We solely have 24, particularly with groups like this.”
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Up to now, opposing groups have outperformed the Pink Sox on their house turf. Nevertheless, Cora seems to be ahead to flipping the web page with an opportunity to separate the four-game sequence with Cleveland nonetheless in play.
“We nonetheless obtained two video games on this homestand,” Cora added. “It’s been a tricky one to date, however we come right here, we win two video games, and we prepare for Pittsburgh.”
Listed here are extra notes from Tuesday evening’s Pink Sox-Guardians recreation:
— Proper-handed starter Garrett Whitlock threw solely 54 pitches, charged with two runs after logging 4 innings on the mound, earlier than being eliminated early with left indirect tightness.
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“Simply had some tightness in my indirect they usually simply felt just like the precautionary transfer was to drag me out,” Whitlock mentioned. “… I’m not fearful about it so we’ll wait and see.”
— Rafael Devers additionally departed with left knee discomfort within the ninth inning.
“That’s completely new. I by no means had any points with my legs, “Devers shared. “In order that occurred as we speak and I don’t know what’s happening. I don’t know what to consider it. I’ve by no means been that sort of participant that’s been injured. Clearly, it’s irritating to take care of one other ache.”
— Boston allowed a season-high in hits (14) and runs (10), falling to 0-5 in video games the place the opposing staff scores first.
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— The Pink Sox lineup scored five-plus runs for the tenth time in 18 video games performed this season, falling to 8-2 when doing so.
— The sequence between Boston and Cleveland continues Wednesday evening for the third of 4. First pitch from Fenway Park is about for 7 p.m. ET, and you’ll catch the sport, plus an hour of pregame protection, dwell on NESN.