BOSTON — Instant reactions as the Red Sox (68-59) suffer one of their most crushing losses of 2025, leaving 13 men on base as the Orioles sweep a quick two-game series with a 4-3, 11-inning win in which Boston squandered late opportunity after late opportunity:

1) It didn’t take Nathaniel Lowe very long to welcome himself to Boston . With the Red Sox down, 3-1, in the ninth, Lowe — in his first Red Sox start — laced a no-doubt, two-run missile off Orioles righty Yaramil Hiraldo to tie the game. It went 109.5 mph off the bat and plated Romy Gonzalez, who worked a walk to start the ninth.

That glory was just momentary for the Red Sox, who lost a crusher, falling on an RBI groundout from rookie Samuel Basallo that traveled 13 feet in front of catcher Connor Wong. The Sox were a stagger

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