The pain and suffering of a Roman Anthony-less squad continued tonight with yet another bleak showing by Boston’s offense. It surely doesn’t help when Alex Bregman is robbed of a homer in the eighth by Blaze Alexander, or Trevor Story hits a 100-mph flyout that is a home run in 23/30 parks. It’s also not great to strike out seven times in six innings against Brandon Pfaadt (who has a 7.47 K/9 this year and a 5.33 ERA) while only scoring one run. Nor is it ideal to rack up a single hit in three innings against Jake Woodford, Jalen Beeks (thanks for your contributions to the 2018 WS, btw), and John Curtiss — who have a combined 3.96 ERA.

But on the other side of the ball, the Sox were really never able to recover after a rare Trevor Story error in the second allowed the Diamondbacks to scor

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