Blindfold Baseball: Red Sox Lose to Reds, CB Bucknor Wins the Night

Boston battles back, ties it late… then hands the game—and the spotlight—to chaos in extra innings

If you were looking for a clean, well-played baseball game… congratulations—you watched the wrong one.

The Red Sox dropped a 6–5 extra-inning loss to the Cincinnati Reds in a game that had everything: sloppy execution, late-game hope, wasted opportunities… and a strike zone that appeared to be determined by a Magic 8 Ball.

Let’s not sugarcoat this: the Re…