COMMENTARY
To call what happened in the bottom of the ninth Thursday at Fenway Park exciting would be to devalue English. It was notable.
It was exciting in the way a party you’re not invited to four houses down the street is. A blip in your periphery, but a different blip in your periphery, with a soundtrack you can just about pick up.
In brief, Tampa lost track of its mound visits in the ninth inning, and tried to make an extra with two on, two out, and the Red Sox down two runs.