Tonight's game should have been about Tanner Houck. It should have been about how the big righty battled through six innings of one run baseball without his best stuff... Instead, it was about none of that as all his efforts were washed away in the rainy final three innings.
The bullpen stunk, again! The Sox lost because of bad pitching, again! And they had to use at least five different guys just to get the full 27 outs, again! This is unsustainable... if they can't clean things up soon.
By the way, in case you want to know where not to throw Jose Altuve a pitch during a big spot in a game, that would be right here.
Overall, this game also had some rather unfortunate similarities to Game 4 of the 2021 ALCS - Also against Houston, and also in Fenway Park.
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