With the series not quite on the line yet — but pretty close to being on the line — Alex Cora didn’t take any chances with Brayan Bello in Game 2, pulling him after just 28 pitches. Any loss last night would have been demoralizing. But last night’s loss was particularly painful given the way it made tonight’s game that much harder. The bullpen gave the Sox some extremely solid pitching in cobbling together 5 2/3 innings of two-run ball to keep the game competitive. But one can only imagine how much more rested that bullpen would be tonight if Bello came out of the gate with good stuff on Wednesday. Now, if Connelly Early also doesn’t have his good stuff in the Bronx, the bullpen will get five months of rest.

This puts Alex Cora in a precarious predicament, which he’s no stranger to this s

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