Red Sox 5, Rangers 4: Win and Stay Alive

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty ImagesWe told you. After a rough half of a season, Brayan Bello is finally steadying the ship. As Jacob Roy wrote in his latest Anatomy of Inning piece, when Bello has both his slider and changeup working, hitters have no choice but to guess. Tonight, he threw those two pitches 55 times, generated 10 swinging strikes.

But, sadly for both Brayan Bello and for us, the lineup didn’t do too much to support him. After six innings of one-run ball, Bello left the game with just a three-run lead. (And two of those runs were scored via bases loaded walks. Those count as honest-to-goodness runs, but they have kind of a freak show vibe to them that leaves…