TORONTO — Instant reactions to the Red Sox (64-54) losing their third straight game Monday, a 2-1 loss to the Blue Jays that included one of the more bizarre sequences you'll ever see on a baseball field:
1) The Red Sox, after dropping two games to the Athletics over the weekend at home, have lost three in a row for the first time since June 16-18, when the Blue Jays swept them at Fenway Park. Boston has scored just seven runs in its last 27 innings following a 25-run outburst in a two-game span Thursday and Friday.
Boston won nine series in a row before the weekend set against the A's. With one more loss in Toronto, the best they'll be able to do is split a four-game set north of the border.
2) A bizarre — and confounding — sequence played out in the seventh inning as Toronto led, 2-0. With two men on and no outs, Nick Sogard hit a sharp ball to first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. that Guerrero fielded on a hop, then threw to second. That means there was one out recorded — not a double play.
The league-controlled video board (and a press box announcement) said there were two outs... but Sogard stayed on first as Anthony Seigler took third. One pitch later, Ceddanne Rafaela hit a fly ball to center and both runners — thinking there were two outs — were off on contact. Sogard was picked off for an inning-ending double play.
#toronto #outs #blue #Third
1) The Red Sox, after dropping two games to the Athletics over the weekend at home, have lost three in a row for the first time since June 16-18, when the Blue Jays swept them at Fenway Park. Boston has scored just seven runs in its last 27 innings following a 25-run outburst in a two-game span Thursday and Friday.
Boston won nine series in a row before the weekend set against the A's. With one more loss in Toronto, the best they'll be able to do is split a four-game set north of the border.
2) A bizarre — and confounding — sequence played out in the seventh inning as Toronto led, 2-0. With two men on and no outs, Nick Sogard hit a sharp ball to first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. that Guerrero fielded on a hop, then threw to second. That means there was one out recorded — not a double play.
The league-controlled video board (and a press box announcement) said there were two outs... but Sogard stayed on first as Anthony Seigler took third. One pitch later, Ceddanne Rafaela hit a fly ball to center and both runners — thinking there were two outs — were off on contact. Sogard was picked off for an inning-ending double play.
#toronto #outs #blue #Third
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