Most people probably paid to see Chris Sale make his 22nd start of a season.
Instead, they got one of the most entertaining games of the entire year.
And a worthy ending.
It goes down as a 12-10 walkoff win over the Cleveland Indians, but if ever one win could count as two, this one was it. Christian Vazquez ended the insanity with a three-run homer to dead center field off Indians closer Cody Allen in the ninth inning.
The Red Sox erased three leads, ignored a remarkable catch by a tumbling-over-the-bullpen-wall Austin Jackson to rob Hanley Ramirez of a home run and endured disastrous relief pitching from their newly acquired set-up man, Addison Reed, and closer Craig Kimbrel in the top of the ninth inning.