BOSTON -- It started out so promising for the Red Sox on Monday night, as they went on the early attack against one of the best pitchers in baseball in Corey Kluber. Meanwhile, Rick Porcello was carving up the Indians and seemed primed to make an early lead stand up.
But in the middle of the game, the Tribe played Home Run derby against Porcello and turned the tables while handing the Red Sox a 5-4 defeat in the opener off a four-game series at Fenway Park.
It was a matchup of two top teams that could face each other in the postseason for the second time in the last three years.