Sox Steal One in Tampa: Ninth-Inning Chaos Saves Boston from Itself

Because nothing says playoff push like leaning on the other team’s errors and a panic attack rally in the ninth.

Your Boston Red Sox are now 85–70 after beating the Tampa Bay Rays 6–3 last night. Yes, it was technically a win, but let’s not sugarcoat it: this wasn’t dominance, this wasn’t clean baseball—this was Boston throwing spaghetti at the wall and realizing the Rays had left the kitchen door open.

The Sox are two games behind the Yankees in the wild card and …