Without Tanner Houck for a second straight important game, Alex Cora’s hands were tied a bit late as the Red Sox faced the Blue Jays on Tuesday.
The Red Sox took a 5-4 lead into the bottom of the ninth after Tyler Danish pitched a clean eighth inning, and — with the closer Houck back in Boston due to his unvaccinated status and Canada’s preventative COVID-19 measures still in place — Cora put Danish back on the mound.
Danish promptly gave up a single to Alejandro Kirk. He then walked George Springer. Cora jogged out to the mound and replaced Danish with Robles, but the Blue Jays recorded a pair of run-scoring singles — one each by Bo Bichette and Vlad Guerrero Jr.