Boston Bounces Back!

 

Red Sox 3, Braves 1! The Sox win the road series in Atlanta as Trevor Story hits a three-run double in the first inning. After Trevor's hit - nearly a grand slam home run, but the ball hit the top of the wall - it was pretty quiet and the game settled down to a pitcher's duel, the kind of game that Boston usually loses as of late. But Garrett Crochet struck out 12 over seven innings and relievers Weissert and Chapman added two more Ks over two shutout innings, and Boston wins the game.

The Dodgers are working on a sweep of New York this weekend (they won the first two games), so Boston could make up a little bit of the distance in the standings between the team and first place, but it's still a mighty long road ahead.

Boston's next series is against Los Angeles too, but fortunately for us not the Dodgers. Starting tomorrow, the Sox host the LA Angels (26-32) for three games at Fenway, and then, uh oh, it's off to the Bronx for the first series of the season against the Yankees. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Tomorrow, Richard Fitts (0-2, 2.70) will face the Angels' Tyler Anderson (2-2, 3.39). Let's just take it one game at a time.