May 15, 2016
Red Sox 10, Astros 9
W – Hembree (2-0)
L – Feldman (2-3)
S – Kimbrel (10)
I’m going to put a lot less effort into this recap than the team put into today’s game. Clearly losing 10-9 means you’re doing a few things right, but it also means you’re doing a lot of things wrong as well. Feel free to go read the official recap if you wish, but here are the highlights and lowlights:
- Defense was sloppy: two Astro errors plus a costly missed fly ball in the outfield; five total errors for both teams
- Both starters sucked: Devenski gave up six runs in two innings; Sean O’Sullivan allowed as many in 4+ innings
- Valbuena and Correa both homered in the game; Valbuena drove in five of the team’s nine runs
- The Astros clawed and scraped their way to a 9-8 lead after six, but they gave two runs back in the 7th
Dropping three of four from a good Sox team in Boston is not entirely unexpected, but it burns when it could’ve been 3-1 the other way.