COMMENTARY

Immediately before they became the best team in the American League — if not baseball — for six weeks, the Red Sox played a game in which the highlight was a scoreless inning from Nate Eaton.

This may spark multi-layered confusion. I’ll help: Eaton’s 14-game contribution ended a month ago when the 28-year-old went back to Worcester to make room for Masataka Yoshida . And yes, WooSox fans and diehards, you’re right: He’s not a pitcher.

Eaton was the white flag arm in the ninth of a 9-0 loss on June 27 , when José Berríos and two Blue Jays relievers held a non-competitive lineup to four hits. The Sox were 3-7 since trading Rafael Devers to the Giants , yanked backward after winning seven of eight, including five straight against the Yankees when that seemed harder than i

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