3. Boston Red Sox
For the Boston Red Sox games and especially losses like the one they had on Saturday hurts more than usual as they are battling to stay at or near the top of the AL East standings, but their bullpen wasn’t able to hold onto the win in what was an eventual 10-9 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in walk-off fashion.
The final three relief pitchers for the game wearing a Boston uniform allowed six runs in a total of 1.2 innings on the mound, with the trio of Tommy Layne, Junichi Tazawa and Craig Kimbrel each allowing two runs, and a total of seven hits, the same amount of hits that Red Sox starter Rick Porcello allowed in 6.2 innings.
Layne failed to record an out, facing two batters.
Kimbrel was charged with a blown save and the loss, falling to 0-2 on the season, which amounts for both of his blown saves. One plus for the Red Sox bullpen was Matt Barnes who in 0.1 innings of relief didn’t allow a run, but did walk a batter.
It wasn’t a pretty day for the Red Sox for sure, but at least the Red Sox were able to keep ahold of first place in the AL East following the loss.
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