MacKenzie Gore worked around a single and a throwing error by catcher Riley Adams in the home-half of the first inning on Sunday afternoon, but a leadoff walk, single, and ROE on an entirely catchable fly to center Victor Robles just didn’t catch (it went in and out of his glove on a routine play), proved too much to overcome for the starter.
Gore got an out at home in the next at-bat, but a ground-rule double on a fly to short right which landed fair and bounced out of play allowed two runs to score, and a wild pitch got one in as well, 3-0 Boston, and the Red Sox made those three early runs hold up.