All you need to know, in quickie form, about the Red Sox' 13-6 loss to the Phillies, complete with BSJ analysis and insight.
BOX SCORE
HEADLINES
Things turned quickly: After the fifth inning, things actually looked as though the Red Sox were in good position. Leading 4-2 and with their high-leverage relievers all available, it seemed Ron Roenicke could get an inning each out of Josh Taylor, Heath Hembree, Matt Barnes and Brandon Workman. "I felt pretty good at that point,'' said Roenicke. 'We get to that point and you're going to those guys in the bullpen.'' Instead, Taylor face-planted, and Hembree, taking over, was even worse. The Phillies sent 12 men to the plate and seven scored. At one point, eight straight hitters reached base. By the time the sixth inning was over, the Red Sox had gone from leading by two to trailing by five. "All of a sudden,'' recounted Roenicke, "it gets out of hand in a hurry.''
Godley keeps them in it: It was far from a masterpiece, but starter Zack Godley gave the Sox four innings as a starter and allowed just one run. Godley had traffic on the bases in every inning and had to pitch himself out of a couple of messy spots, but largely did so. He stranded runners in each of the first three innings, twice in scoring position. The Phils nicked him for a run in the fourth. Godley made the Phils work, too, allowing just one walk in his four innings of work. The problem was, he labored with his pitch count, needing 84 pitches to record just 12 outs. That put the onus on the bullpen, but for just the eighth time in 24 games, the Red Sox didn't allow multiple runs within the first three innings.
Martinez comes out: Designed hitter J.D. Martinez was removed from the game when his turn at the plate came around in the fifth inning, raising eyebrows. It was soon announced that Martinez was suffering from dehydration, which seemed odd given that Tuesday was a particularly dry day at Fenway with little to no humidity and certainly cooler than it's been in Boston in recent weeks. "He was a little bit dizzy,'' said Roenicke. "He felt a little weird before the game and when he hit in the double (in the third inning) and ran to second, it took him a few pitches before he was clear and not dizzy. The trainers looked at him and thought he was dehydrated. That's why we took him out of the game.'' He was replaced by Jonathan Arauz. Roenicke said he expects Martinez to be fine for Wednesday's matinee, though he couldn't say for certain.
TURNING POINT
In the fifth inning, the Sox had a chance to add on when Alex Verdugo (walk) and Rafael Devers (single) gave them runners at the corners with no out and the heart of the lineup due. But a sacrifice fly from Xander Bogaerts was all that they could manage thereafter, and in the top of the next inning, the game blew up on them quickly.
ONE UP
Rafael Devers: Devers broke out with a three-hit game: singling and scoring a run in the first; doubling home a run and scoring again in the third; and singling again in the fifth.
TWO DOWN
Michael Chavis: With Mitch Moreland at first, Chavis got the start at second base and promptly went 0-for-5 with five strikeouts -- four swinging and one called -- and also committed an error in the top of the ninth.
Marcus Walden: For the fourth time in his last six outings, Walden was scored upon, allowing three runs on two hits in a single inning of work.
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING:
- The seven runs by the Phillies in the top of the seventh was a season high against the Red Sox and the most runs they'd allowed in an inning since allowing seventh against the Angels on Aug. 31, 2019.
- The nine straight losses are the most for the Red Sox since they dropped 10 in a row in 2014.
- Alex Verdugo was 1-for-1 and now has a career-high nine-game hitting streak.
- Verdugo has at least one extra-base hit in each of his last six games.
- Chavis became the first Red Sox player to fan five times in a game since David Ross in 2013 and only the fourth since 1969.