Astros 13, Red Sox 5: Alex Cora Quiet Quits

Yordan and Altuve were unstoppable.This might be the day the Red Sox’s season ended. It started so hopefully: Sale Day! Ceddanne Rafaela! But by halfway through, with Alex Cora seemingly preoccupied, Kyle Barraclough had perhaps the team’s most ignominious and tortuous reliever appearance of the season, handing the game to the Astros, which they’d eventually win 13-5 and more or less put the Sox to sleep for the year.

Everything started fantastically, however, as the Sox plated two on a Triston Casas double in the bottom of the second:

Casas comes through! #RedSox pic.twitter.com/YL29YIQ2gu

— NESN (@NESN) August 28, 2023 We love a 2-0 game, don’t we folks? But what about a 2-1 game? We love it…