Just when I think I’m out, they pull me right back in!
I flew to Kansas City (more on that later in the week) for this weekend’s series and it was quite the environment to be a middling team playing in the kingdom — no pun intended — that a basement-dwelling ballclub calls home. And, as fate would have it, save for a despicable performance Friday night, the Red Sox looked pretty darn good all weekend! That performance even carried over, after an early hiccup, against the Tampa Bay Rays. Triston Casas extended his hit streak to eleven games, Masataka Yoshida came alive, and Brayan Bello went six innings, which is entirely uncommon for the Red Sox rotation — and for Bello himself in games that start before 7:00.