I had a Saturday feature article written and ready about the timeline of all the Red Sox drama this season, but I’d finished it before the end of last night’s game, our first against the San Francisco Giants and our first facing Rafael Devers in another uniform. And then the bottom of the 9th came. Aroldis Chapman was tasked with closing out the game. The Sox had a 7-5 lead and, with Chapman pitching, it looked like it’d be easy enough to hold, given how good Chapman has been.
He struck out the leadoff batter, Heliot Ramos, on five pitches.