And here I was getting used to writing "and no one got
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despite it ultimately being just another part of the waiting game, is where hope
is supposed to spring eternal. Grizzled veterans are meant to oppose Father Time
and continue to play a productive role in a young man¡¯s game, while those same
young men fight to earn a spot at the highest level of the sport. And most days,
it¡¯s kind of like that. Sure it can be boring, but it¡¯s better to have a boring
and uneventful day since most eventful days in spring are usually the result of
someone getting injured.Unfortunately, today is one of those eventful
days.Triston McKenzie, age 20, is widely regarded as the best prospect in the
Cleveland system. Our own readers seem to agree on that front. He was impressive
last season with the Akron RubberDucks, sporting a 2.68 ERA across 90.2 innings.
He allwoed just 27 earned runs while walking 28 and striking out 87. He was most
assuredly set to start the 2019 season back in Akron, but a strong start
could¡¯ve seen McKenzie promoted to the Clippers during the season and
(potentially) in Cleveland in September. Now that timeline is in question since
¡°indefinitely¡±, by definition, has no timetable for return.To add to the
uncertainty, this is not McKenzie¡¯s first encounter with injuries. Last June, he
was out for over two months with a forearm injury, which was a big factor in his
shortened double-A debut. It seems as if he was fully recovered from his arm
injury based on his success last year, but with another injury so soon after the
first one, it¡¯s going to be hard for McKenzie to shake the ¡°injury-prone¡± label
that¡¯s sure to come.There will surely be updates from the medical staff as they
get more information on McKenzie¡¯s injury. Hopefully the timetable for return
isn¡¯t as bad as I¡¯m sure most are fearing (given the track record of the
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Rebilas-USA TODAY SportsI really don¡¯t know how to describe what I just watched.
It¡¯s hard to imagine things could get any worse for this team, but know that I¡¯m
knocking on every wood surface I can find as I type this. The Red Sox were
thoroughly embarrassed in Arizona on Friday. The offense had one solid inning in
which they failed to maximize their chance. Rick Porcello had a couple strong
innings before imploding. The defense made multiple mistakes. Brian Johnson gave
up a billion runs. This was the definition of a gut punch in the midst of a road
trip that has continued to go from bad to worse.The Red Sox moved on to a new
city and off of the Pacific coast for the first time in 2019, but it was more of
the same early on for this team. The new norm for the pitching staff seems to be
starting off strong before seeing the bottom fall out after a couple of innings.
Meanwhile, the offense has been dead for multi-inning stretches before putting
on a rally that ends with too few runs. It¡¯s a familiar pattern by now, and we
were watching it play out in the first half of this game in Arizona as well. It
would get so, so much worse, too.The first inning was relatively quiet on both
sides. Rick Porcello did have to fight off a couple of two-out baserunners after
a single and a catchers interference call going against Blake Swihart, but they
were stranded there. The second would be even quieter with both sides going down
in order.Then, in the third, the Red Sox finally got something going against
Zach Godley, who had retired the first six batters he faced. The red-hot Swihart
started the rally with a leadoff single before he was moved over to third one
base at a time on two ground outs. That brought up Andrew Benintendi, who just
missed an RBI double down the right field line but then came back with an RBI
double to the opposite field. That gave Boston a 1-0 lead, and after Mookie
Betts reached on an infield single Mitch Moreland had a chance to give the Sox a
big lead with runners on the corners. He couldn¡¯t come through, though, and
Boston settled for just the single run.That would hurt, because on the other end
things started heading downhill for Porcello. The bottom half of the third
started with a base hit from
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and any inning that starts with a hit from the opposing pitcher is destined to
end poorly. Sure enough, after an infield single and a walk, Arizona had the
bases loaded with nobody out. All things considered, Porcello did handle it as
well as possible allowing just one run to score on a double play and escaping
the frame with the score knotted up.After the Sox lineup went down in order in
the fourth, the aforementioned bottom had its falling out. Two batters into the
bottom half of the inning, Ketel Marte came up and launched a 2-0 slider over
the wall in right-center field to give Arizona a one-run lead. It would get
worse. Much worse. Nick Ahmed smacked a double, moved to third on a wild pitch
and then after a walk Godley got his second hit of the day. This was a cheapie
on a pop up that found grass in between Brock Holt, Betts and J.D. Martinez.
Just another instance of bad luck and bad baseball living in perfect harmony,
and that gave the DBacks a two-run lead. After another single and a ground out,
they had plated two more and at the end of the fourth it was suddenly a 5-1
deficit for Boston. Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY SportsRick Porcello was left in
the game, though, and hit for himself in the fifth. He would not make it out of
the bottom half of the inning. Longtime AL East foe Adam Jones led off for
Arizona and he¡¯d extend the lead even more with a smoked home run out to left
field, his fourth homer of the year. After getting two consecutive strikeouts,
Porcello allowed a single and a double to give up one more run before his day
was over. In all, he allowed seven runs in just 4 2â? innings on ten hits (two
homers), three walks and five strikeouts. To make matters worse, Brian Johnson
had to come out in relief. The lefty was likely to get Sunday¡¯s start, but
that¡¯s obviously less likely now.As we moved on to the
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pain because of course it did. After Betts, Martinez and Bogaerts all drew
walks, they had the bases loaded with two outs and a real chance to put a dent
into the lead. Arizona turned to lefty specialist Andrew Chafin, though, and
Rafael Devers was no match for him. The young third baseman grounded out weakly
back to the mound, and the Red Sox left the inning with the same total on the
scoreboard as they had at the start of the frame.I¡¯m going to spare you (and I,
to be honest) the rest of this story. I¡¯ll just say that Johnson had an
unfathomably bad sixth and by the end of that inning the Diamondbacks had a 14-1
lead. If you really want to know the gory details, seek help and also click the
¡°Box¡± link below and head over to the play-by-play tab. On a positive note,
Betts did crush a two-run, garbage time home run. That was neat. They added two
more on a Blake Swihart double, too. Then, in the next inning, Mitch Moreland
closed the gap with a three-run home run.The game ended pretty much as it
should, with Eduardo Núñez on the mound for the Red Sox. Yes, you read that
correctly. He got a pair of quick outs before allowing a solo shot to Alex
Avila. He¡¯d get out of it after that and finished in the top half of the four
Red Sox pitchers to appear in the game in terms of quality of performance.The
Red Sox will look to put this one behind them and pick up a win in the desert on
Saturday night. They¡¯ll turn to David Price who will go up against Luke Weaver.
First pitch is scheduled for 8:10 PM ET.BOX