The first inning was the story of this one. After Brayan Bello kept the Dodgers off the board, the Red Sox had Dodgers starter Emmett Sheehan on the ropes. Sheehan couldn't find the zone, and Red Sox hitters were all over his stuff. Sheehan threw 32 pitches in the first inning, but didn’t allow a run. The next inning, he threw six pitches and suddenly had new life in the game.
After the first inning, the Red Sox had five baserunners the rest of the night. They scored two runs in the third inning and had Alex Bregman on second base with nobody out, but couldn’t advance him past that.