After a 36-minute rain delay, that is.
"Hey, we're going up against a bunch of things that are going around our clubhouse right now", Farrell said.
Matt Barnes (1-0) got the win in relief for Boston. Mitch Moreland, who knocked out seven hits in the series, led off with his second straight double.
Verlander limited the damage to a single run, coaxing a 4-6-3 double play from Brock Holt - a text-book turn by Kinsler and Jose Iglesias.
Zimmermann refused to give the Sox life in the sixth, ensuring the ever-critical lockdown inning after a big inning from his offense.
Those quick to criticize the Red Sox point out that they have only scored in four of 38 innings this year.
Meanwhile, Sale just kept doing Sale things.
The first-place Minnesota Twins will visit Comerica Park this week for a three-game series.
It felt even better when he was able to make Sale pay for wanting to face him.
Xander Bogaerts was set to rejoin the Red Sox lineup, but a flight cancellation prevented that from happening. "But in the fifth inning. they were able to get him that second and third time through the order".
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With Francisco Rodriguez unavailable after throwing 12/3 innings Friday, Wilson picked up the save with a three-up, three-down ninth inning. It seemed to fire up the Tiger's ace, and he let the umpire know it. "Today was one of those days where, once I gave up a run, pitch count didn't matter". Sale walked the former and took on the latter.
"So with two outs, he's kind of pitching around (Kinsler)". Tomlin struck out the next two batters, but Goldschmidt lined a double into left-center field to give the Diamondbacks a 4-3 lead over the defending AL champions.
After an 0-for-12 start, Moreland caught fire in Detroit.
Sale left a scoreless game after pitching seven innings, allowing three hits and one walk while striking out seven in his Boston debut Wednesday.
Then, the bottom of the eighth happened.
"I don't work around anybody", Sale said after the game.
Daniel Murphy homered, doubled twice and tied career highs with five RBIs and four hits and the Washington Nationals defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 8-3.
In a tight game like that, you can't help wondering whether a home run hitter like Hanley Ramirez might have made a difference. "It was great, I had a fun time doing that and hopefully I can get in more situations like that". Instead, the eighth continued with Sale being taken out for Heath Hembree, who had the pleasure of facing Miguel Cabrera. Given all this, it is hardly surprising the Red Sox are struggling to produce offensively, a pattern that continued on Saturday afternoon. A comeback was not in the cards for the Red Sox, however, as Sandoval struck out, Young grounded into a fielder's choice at second, and Holt ended the game watching strike three.
"You can sit here and try to find excuses all day long", Sale said.
"I'm not thinking too much about what happened previous year", said Porcello, who needs two strikeouts to reach 1,000 for his career.
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