In a game that was both everything the Red Sox could be and everything they’re ultimately not, the evening’s events culminated in catastrophic calamity as the club who can’t close completely collapsed on consecutive choke jobs.
Specifically, Greg Weissert was handed the lead twice in extra innings, and both times he coughed it up. The crippling chaos canceled out both Carlos Narvaez’s go ahead hit in the tenth, and Kristian Campbell’s clutch home run to the opposite field in the 11th.
But somehow, that wasn’t the only blown save of the night for the Red Sox, because less than an hour earlier, Garrett Whitlock came into a game for the fourth time in his last five outings with a lead and failed to protect it.