Red Sox just keep adding more possibility of change to the pile

Not even Rafael Devers could keep the Red Sox from a dispiriting loss to finish another loss to the Blue Jays on Thursday night.COMMENTARY

It’s hard to lose a game the way the Red Sox lost on Thursday. Genuinely hard.

Teams that accumulate 15 hits in a game are 130-10 this season. Teams that reach base at least 18 times, as the Red Sox did against Toronto, are 302-32. Each of those is nine-out-of-ten stuff, and yet that’s somehow only a part of the tale.

Going 3 for 20 with 10 strikeouts with runners in scoring position, in the same game where your entire starting lineup had a hit, is hard. Not scoring after a leadoff triple, then the next inning not scoring with the bases loaded and none out,…