Opening Day for the Red Sox was not great. Corey Kluber started the game and was mostly terrible, as he has been for most of the season. He was uncharacteristically wild throughout the game. He walked four batters and gave up five runs in 3.1 innings. Boston went on to lose the game 10-9 as Ryan Brasier and Kaleb Ort also struggled.
The offense though had a good game. Masataka Yoshida in his Major League debut knocked a couple of base hits in the game, scored once and drove in one. He was the biggest highlight for the team, though Alex Verdugo tripled to lead off the season for Boston and both Christian Arroyo and Rafael Devers contributed doubles.
Even during the recent LAA series it was nice to see Yoshida continue to be consistent although a lot of that contact turning into grounders from his April slump is rearing its ugly head again a little.
ReplyDeleteYeah, hopefully he will get that corrected quicker this time.
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