I have to be honest, I fully expected Dustin May to suck tonight. There was an undercurrent of anger in my mood all afternoon, and I was dreading what this series could mean for the backend of the road trip.

It all felt predetermined: May was going to get clobbered, the losing streak was going to extend to four games with Walker Buehler going against Hunter Brown in the finale, and the odds of winning the division would continue to dwindle. Disaster was lurking on the horizon with the bottom of the rotation coming apart, and the weapons were about to come out rehashing the underwhelming trade deadline.

But then, they played the game, and baseball started baseballing. Dustin May, who couldn’t get out of the fourth inning in his first start in a Red Sox uniform, had a 5.66 ERA in his last

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