The Red Sox put on a disasterclass of baseball against the Blue Jays, and Toronto didn’t waste a single mistake. Nathan Eovaldi gave up six runs before getting yanked, walking in another with the bases loaded. Manager Alex Cora reluctantly went to the bullpen and called for Austin Davis, hoping to stop the bleeding. But then Raimel Tapia lifted a harmless fly ball to center that dropped when Jarren Duran totally lost it in the lights. Verdugo hustled from left to pick it up, but by the time the ball got home, Tapia had circled the bases for an inside-the-park grand slam. That made it 10-0, and the Blue Jays were just getting started.
In the next inning, with two outs again, a hit-by-pitch and an infield single kept the inning going. A throwing error followed, and the Blue Jays hit a three-run shot to pile it on. Then in the fifth, the Red Sox dropped another pop-up with two outs, turning a sure end to the inning into more misery. More two-out hits followed, and by the end of the inning, Toronto had scored 11 unearned runs. Boston’s defense was a mess. No one could find fly balls, routine plays turned into disasters, and mistakes led to runs every time.
By the time the nightmare stopped, the Blue Jays had put up 28 runs. The Red Sox crowd sarcastically stood and cheered just for getting out of the inning. Eovaldi and Cora wore the look of total disbelief. Toronto’s dugout stayed loose and laughing while Boston looked lost. Toronto’s offense crushed the moment, but much of it came from Boston handing them chances over and over. The Red Sox gave up at least 11 runs with two outs, most of them “earned” only because the team didn’t touch the ball to make it an error. A brutal scoring quirk in a brutal game.