No sweep

The Red Sox lost 7-2 last night and the Judges were all acting like they had just won the world series. I wanted someone to yell out, "Hey boneheads, try not to be so proud of yourselves because one out of four kinda sucks!"

So as things stand right now, the Red Sox are half a game ahead of the Judges and 5 games behind the Blue Jays.

Tonight's game against the Orioles features no starting pitcher. Instead Cora has opted to go with Bernardino as an opener.

If Bernardino can give them three innings and then Fitts give them another three, that leaves only three innings for the bullpen to close out.

First pitch is at 6:45.

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Here are some links:

• Key line in this story: "A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator."



• I think the best nickname in all of baseball is The Iowa Meat Truck.



• Key line in this story: "That he’s ready to go, and that he helps our offense, and that he helps Drake Maye."



• Gotta be honest with you, brain worms sounds like a terrible thing.



• Cats: Way more trouble than dogs.



• As a father, I can assure you that if I learned that this had ever happened to my little girl, I might just have to do something very bad about it.