Should baseball exist after last weekend? It’s tough to say. The Red Sox got swept and thoroughly embarrassed themselves after largely standing pat at the trade deadline, earning them some scorn from the sizable contingent of Sox fans who wish the team would get off the fence and buy or sell, and not sift through the mud for diamonds when you already have the cash to fly private. Anyhow, the Red Sox played the Royals tonight anyway and wore the City Connect jerseys behind Brayan Bello.
Bello worked himself into jam in the first, putting runners on first and third with two outs, before Matt Beaty rolled one to second base to end the threat.