The best news for the Red Sox so far tonight doesn’t even come from their game, but Tampa Bay’s, as the Yankees have taken a 1-0 lead and forced David Price to throw 29 pitches just to get out of the first.
Meanwhile, in Baltimore, things are…pretty dull. David Ortiz drew a two-out walk off of Alfredo Simon in the first, but Adrian Gonzalez hit a soft liner back up the middle where Robert Andino made a routine play on it for the out. Jon Lester would have relatively similar results, giving up a double with one out to J.J. Hardy, but striking out Nick Markakis and getting a 1-pitch ground out from Vladimir Guerrero to end the threat in a hurry.