For the majority of its mid stages, it had ugly loss written all over it. Ceddanne Rafaela failed to make not one, but two plays he would normally secure, each leading to an Oriole run. Then, Roman Anthony, Alex Bregman and Trevor Story came up and blew a first and third nobody out situation in the eighth after Connor Wong and David Hamilton of all people set that table.
The offense had only put up 5 hits all game and had failed to bring runners home in the top of the eighth, when Wong and Hamilton were on the corners with no outs. But the Red Sox really like the top of the ninth on the road right now, and Ceddanne Rafaela, in a moment of redemption and glory, smacked a two-run home run to left field and put the Sox back on top.