COMMENTARY
The left-adrift Red Sox have won four of seven series, this weekend hitting Pittsburgh with early power on the way to a sweep. They’ve scored first in 17 of 23 games, and Sunday’s was the first game they won when they didn’t.
They’ve done it as they continue to lose critical pieces, the latest Triston Casas, shelved Saturday with a bleak-sounding rib ailment causing him “a lot of pain” and sending him back to Boston for Monday testing.
The news doesn’t figure to be good. Another drag when the on-field news has, somewhat inexplicably, been better than expected.