Well, things are looking pretty bleak right now for the Astros. They didn’t necessarily need to win Monday night’s Game 3 at Fenway Park. Falling behind 2–1 in a best-of-seven series isn’t that bad. At a minimum, all they had to do was this:
- Win one of the three games in Boston to send the series back to Houston
- Don’t completely burn through their pitching staff before then.
And then they lost Monday night in the most demoralizing way possible. It started when Alex Verdugo drew a one-out, 11-pitch walk in the second inning.