The Red Sox can even up the American League Championship Series this afternoon behind Nathan Eovaldi down in Houston (4:20 p.m., FOX), where the team is smarting after a Game 1 loss in which they came up just short.
It was another heroic day for Kiké Hernández, whose two homers almost gave Boston enough juice to come out on top, but some weird decisions—no Garrett Whitlock? Danny Santana as pinch-hitter—and the normal bounces of the ball in either direction kept the Sox out of the win column. Today they’ll turn to Eovaldi, the hero of the regular season and wild card playoff game, who carries a 2.