That’s what baseball is all about, folks. Your former star player at bat, representing the tying run with two outs in the ninth inning, with the best player in the world waiting on deck. You can’t script it much better than that, and fortunately for us Red Sox fans, it went the Red Sox way.
The first inning continues to give the Red Sox problems. Garrett Crochet gave up two solo shots to put his team in a hole early. Trevor Story, Carlos Narvaez, and Jarren Duran combined to score three runs in the bottom of the second, and they never looked back after that.