Shipping up to Boston...
The Rays held by the skin of their teeth to force a deciding Game 5 at Fenway in a couple of days, winning 5-4 after taking a 5-1 lead after 2 innings.
Ni Guan was entrusted with that lead and gave up a run in the 5th and had men on 2nd and 3rd with nobody out before striking out the next three men and departing, then
Hagen Smith made a mess in the 7th letting Boston within one. With
Felix Bautista unavailable
John McMillon got the ball late but gave up a 1-out hit in his second inning of work in the 9th and with multiple lefties due we swallowed hard and sent yesterday's goat
Tanner Scott out there. And this time he got job done with a game-ending double play on his second pitch. So our fate is in the hands of rookie
Jessie McGee, who didn't pitch well at all in Game 1 but has been fairly solid overall. We'll need him to be.
Neither NLDS is going to end in a sweep:
