Trevor Story got caught stealing tonight, which is a thing we haven’t said all year. Story wasn’t going to just keep on running unhindered forever, of course; every streak comes to an end. But the fact that it happened tonight is telling, because a lot of our expectations as Red Sox fans were upended tonight: • Lucas Giolito was bad. He wasn’t, like, Jordan Hicks bad, mind you. But he was bad nonetheless. He didn’t make it out of the fifth and the A’s had traffic on the base paths all night. Giolito’s resurgence had been nearly as important to the Red Sox’s post-Devers performance as Roman Anthony’s bat, so this was a bad night for him to lose it (though Avery warned you that he might). • Aroldis Chapman was also shaky. It didn’t end up hurting the Sox, but it was worrying to see nonet

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