Red Sox 0, Orioles 3: It can only go up from here

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images This was not the start the Red Sox were looking for, as they did not come out of the gate firing. The good news is they got a really good outing from Nathan Eovaldi, who looked crisp almost all day. He went 5 1⁄3 in which he allowed one run (which was a runner he left behind coming in to score) on four hits (all singles) and one walk with four strikeouts. Some had an issue with pulling him after throwing only 89 pitches, but early in the year, with health such an issue on this staff, I was fine with it. I was less fine with using Matt Andriese as the first reliever, and he’d give up the first runs of the day. The defense was also sloppy, with mistakes from Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts and Enrique Hernández.

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