Hurley: Call Me Crazy, But Red Sox Are OK After Game 1 Loss To Astros
Saturday night was bad. But the Red Sox are OK. Allow me to explain.
Saturday night was bad. But the Red Sox are OK. Allow me to explain.
With temperatures dipping into the 40s, numbing their fingertips as they tried to grip the baseball, Justin Verlander and Chris Sale both struggled to get the ball over the plate. Verlander recovered quickly. Sale never did.
Sale's final line showed that he allowed two earned runs over four innings, which in and of itself was not particularly catastrophic. But with four walks and a hit by pitch, Sale was never in control -- not of his arsenal, and not of the game.
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