Red Sox 5, Padres 2: Bats wake up in Opening Day victory

I personally wasn’t in Boston, but looking at it on TV, that was quintessential Red Sox Opening Day weather, eh? 50s and sunny, the white uniforms back on and a city wanting to kick this team in the backside.

Well, they thankfully didn’t make this one too stressful on any of us as they rolled to a 5-2 win.

Studs

Sonny Gray (6.0 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 3 K)

now THIS was the Sonny Gray start the Red Sox needed. Not even 90 pitches, six frames of pretty clean ball save for that fifth inning. Give me more of that kind of Sonny, please.

Marcelo Mayer (2-for-2, 2 runs, 2 RBI, 1 HR)

I don’t understand why Cora won’t let Mayer roll more and work out his growing pains. When he’s on like this, he’s such a consistent and smooth hitter. It’s a presence this lineup desperately needs, as I alluded to this morning.

The Bullpen (3.0 IP, 0 ER, 0 H)

The Italian Stallion Greg Weissert, no nicknamed Justin Slaten and the Cuban Missile Aroldis Chapman were phenomenal. Nuff said. Well, Chappy passing Pap is something else too.

Duds

Trevor Story (0-for-4, 1 K)

Story is in an early season slump and it shows. Completely the opposite of two years ago when he started on a tear. Then again? He also got hurt for the rest of the season three weeks in so we don’t want a repeat of that.

Play of the Game

I’m really torn because Marcelo hitting a home run is fantastic, Mut Contreras really needed that and it was the game-winning hit too.