The Red Sox headed to Florida to face old friend Jalen Beeks and the Tampa Bay Rays, who were undefeated heading into the game.
The first inning was meh, but then Masataka Yoshida lined a double to left to start the second. Nothing came of it, but it still happened and was temporarily exciting. Jake Raley opened the Rays’s second with a double, too, and nothing came of that, either. Narrative symmetry! We like it.
The Sox did nothing in the third, even if Beeks was taken out for Josh “Not Will” Fleming.