I’m gonna try to keep this short and sweet, because I’ve got a wedding to go to and I’m completely exhausted. I’m going to reference my notes a lot, because gimme a break, I watched more than two games’ worth of baseball and now I have to write comprehensively about it? I AM ONLY ONE MAN.

Let’s start things off in the sixth: Daniel Nava played great in the first nine innings of this one, going 2-3 and getting hit by a pitch. One of those two hits came here, with a grounder through the right side knocking in Pablo Sandoval and Mike Napoli, who’d both previously advanced to 2nd and 3rd on a wild pitch by Eovaldi.

In the bottom half of the inning though, Wade Miley ran into trouble for the first time and got pulled in favor of Robbie Ross, Jr. after walking two batters and giving up a hit to two others. With one run in, one out, and the bases loaded, Ross came in and got two outs, one of them a sacrifice fly from McCann.

In the 8th, Brett Gardner got a one-out single off Junichi Tazawa, but Sandy León caught the speedster stealing with an absolutely perfect throw. León looked solid in his first start for the Sox, also laying down a solid (if ultimately meaningless) sacrifice bunt in the top of the 13th inning.

Edward Mujica blew the save with two outs in the ninth, an event that would ruin my evening completely. Headley took him deep. I don’t even want to think about it. We know what Mujica is, yes? His stuff just isn’t good enough for him to be a closer…unless it is sometimes.

Since I’m pressed for time and the next game starts in…a half hour, I’m going to revert to my scribbled extra inning notes, with a little extra commentary:

1. Are we sure Mike Napoli’s sleep apnea getting cured was a good thing? He was 0-8 with a walk, and he had a golden sombrero in extra innings alone. I know it’s great that he’s dreaming again and everything, but is it possible that his dreams are now CRAZY INTENSE because he hasn’t had any in so long? Poor guy probably wakes up 8 times a night drenched in sweat because of the hellborne nightmares he’s having, and doesn’t want to tell anyone ’cause he’s embarrassed.

2. “Bad K by Mookie Betts in 13th (all swinging) and 15th (looked twice, then swinging), both with runner in scoring position. Did it again in 17th.” I think that says it all. Mookie’s playing fine, but striking out three times with a chance to put your team ahead with a single, twice to end the inning is a tough look when I am very tired and am getting viscerally angry with every Red Sox failure.

3. David Ortiz is the man.

4. Some lights went out in the 12th. I came pretty close to falling asleep at this point.

5. That catch Hanley Ramirez made to end the 12th inning was incredibly Manny-esque, just stumbling around slowly, making it as difficult as possible. But also simultaneously impressive. And as Righty pointed out, they both have the same last name! Hmmmmmm….

6. Dustin Pedroia biffed a double play in the 14th. It didn’t end up mattering, as Drew flew out to right to end the inning, but still, Laser Show hasn’t exactly been lights out defensively so far. Then again, I spent 7 hours sitting in front of a TV/radio last night, so I feel a little hypocritical calling anyone out for athletic lapses. Plus, he ended up making up for it later.

7. A-Rod’s swing is still beautiful. That double in the 11th…what a bastard.

8. The leads we surrendered…they happened. Steven Wright gave up a home run to Teixeira that I felt coming. It happened too many times with Wakefield to ever feel comfortable with a one-run lead being protected by a knuckleballer.

9. Okay, Betts made up for the strikeouts with a sacrifice fly. Fine.

10. Play of the year so far.