Mookie Betts made a spectacular catch, the Red Sox lost, and 2019 stayed its course

Alex Cora's 2019 Red Sox will go down as one of the great disappointments in recent franchise history.COMMENTARY

Mookie Betts, as reigning (at least for a little bit more) MVPs do, definitively answered the question of why we still watch on Monday night.

“I didn’t know I could do that,” Betts told reporters. “It’s fun to kind of do stuff you didn’t know you could do.”

Of course, you didn’t have to be watching Dave O’Brien and Jarrod Saltalamacchia on Monday to see that 305-foot bit of magic from the Tropicana Field warning track. The highlight show still exists to enough of a degree, the playoff races quiet enough on a night with only five games, that it’ll be plastered everywhere in the…