


What does the worst day in Major League Baseball look like? Look no further than the Boston Red Sox’s Monday.
It all began with their flight to Minnesota to face the Twins, which was grounded early in Detroit due to turbulence.
“Rough flight last night,” said manager Alex Cora. “Very rough. For them. I don’t know, I slept through it. There were a lot of people banged up after that flight. We had to go through Detroit and then come here. When we got to Detroit, I fell asleep and all of the sudden, we were here. But it was pretty tough over there.”
While they eventually made it to the Twin Cities, the damage was already done, with several players feeling the after-effects, including pitcher Garrett Whitlock, who was seen walking through the clubhouse at Target Field with an IV attached to him.
The Red Sox were able to field a competitive squad for the matchup with AL Wild Card implications, but the result was truly hard to stomach.

Rookie outfield Roman Anthony gave the beleaguered team the lead in the top of the ninth with an RBI single against Minnesota reliever Jhoan Duran to make it a 4-3 score, but both teams got left in a 90-minute limbo in the bottom of the inning due to a rain delay.
When play finally did resume, Jordan Hicks was unable to close things out for a win, giving up a single, hitting two batters before giving up a one-out single to pinch-hitter Brooks Lee, handing the BoSox a 5-4 loss to end a marathon of a day.
“I mean, a long day in general,” Hicks told reporters. “But obviously I got fully hot [before the delay] and ran on the field and felt really good to go. Then they pulled the tarp, I came back in, sat for an hour, got hot again, and didn’t really have my legs and didn’t know where the zone was.”