00:00Garrett Whitlock had to throw 47 pitches in the eighth inning.
00:03That was the big problem.
00:05He kind of lost it at the end, and I'm sitting there thinking,
00:08while it happened, well, why don't they take him out?
00:11And then I thought, well, he just went through his entire bullpen
00:13to get to that point.
00:14There's really no one else to bring in.
00:17He was the last man standing and really the last person that I think
00:21Alex Cora really trusted out there,
00:24with the exception of Raul Dishrapman, who was going to be next.
00:27You know, Cora obviously can't admit this,
00:29but you could see it toward the end of the year.
00:32They had the three starters and the two guys at the back end of the bullpen.
00:36And because Dustin May didn't really work out
00:38and they didn't really add anybody else at the trade deadline, that's it.
00:43That's what you had to work with.
00:44You knew it coming into the series.
00:46I think it was a plan to play it out the way they did last night,
00:50pull Baio at the first sign in trouble,
00:52try to be aggressive and get it to the finish line,
00:54and ultimately it just didn't work.
00:55They came about one out short.
00:58The other big inning was the seventh inning.
01:00Red Sox had runners on first and second,
01:02and Sedan Raffaella can't get a bunt down.
01:04He didn't bunt a lot during the season.
01:07And then you had Cruz's reaction after he got out of the seventh inning.
01:10What did you think about both incidents?
01:14Yeah, it was tough.
01:15I mean, obviously you would think that a major leaguer could get a bunt down
01:19in that situation.
01:20And the fact that Raffaella could not was just brutal to watch.
01:24And the worst thing about it was neither one of those two pitches was anywhere
01:27near the strike zone.
01:28He could have been ahead in the count.
01:31I think Cruz knew exactly who he had at the plate and what he was going to do.
01:35And he goaded Raffaella into offering it at two terrible pitches away.
01:39And then from there, you load the bases.
01:44Story gets a good piece on a fly ball to deep center, but is ultimately out.
01:49And that was a point where the Red Sox had the leadoff man on in the sixth,
01:53the seventh, and the eighth, and didn't score in any of those three innings.
01:56And you go back to the offense for most of the year and how wasteful they were
02:00with runners in scoring position.
02:02And you saw a three-inning sample of it there that really ended up hurting them.
