The Red Sox lost a game they should have won last night, and I’m not happy about it. Much worse, though, was yesterday’s news that Don Orsillo had been fired from his role as NESN’s play-by-play announcer for Sox games. It’s a travesty. No amount of good, solid play-by-play from his successor, Dave O’Brien (WEEI’s current foil for Joe Castiglione), will change that. It seems impossible that someone could dislike Orsillo, but his boss, Joseph Maar, was one such misguided fool.

Jerry Remy asked to speak to the media after the loss last night and was visibly broken up about the situation. Among more detailed comments, Remy said of Don, “I love him,” and how could you not? He’s the best, and we’ve only got a month left with him. Orsillo, of course, was a good soldier when asked about the situation himself, saying only, “I’m sorry. I’ve got nothing.”

Me neither Don. This sucks. Here are some of Orsillo’s best moments:

There was also a baseball game last night. It was a lefty-lefty matchup on the mound: Wade Miley vs. Jose Quintana. For pretty much the entirety of this one, it felt like Boston was in control. In the 2nd, after hot-hitting rookie Trayce Thompson (12-23 since getting called up) tripled with 1 out, Alexei Ramirez grounded to third, where Pablo Sandoval threw home to get Thompson in a pickle with Ryan Hanigan. And after that, when two consecutive singles had Ramirez coming around from second, Travis Shaw made the right play by cutting the throw off at the mound to catch Geovany Soto in a rundown between second and third to get Miley out of the inning.

After two quick outs in the top of the 3rd, though, Josh Rutledge slapped a single through the right side to give Boston its first baserunner of the night. Then Mookie Betts drove a ball into the left field corner and, as MLB.com puts it, scored a Little League home run. 2-1, Red Sox.

After a clean 3rd, things got a little tougher for Miley. He gave up three consecutive singles to start the 4th inning, including a run-scoring hit by Thompson, but made a good play himself to get the force at third on an attempted sacrifice, struck out Soto, and got a fielder’s choice at second to escape with a tied score.

Boston botched a chance of its own in the top of the 5th. Hanigan had doubled with 1 out, and Jackie Bradley, Jr. singled him over to third, but Butterfield didn’t send him home. But Rutledge struck out and on the first pitch to Mookie Betts, Bradley took off when he saw the ball hit the dirt. But Soto, unfortunately, recovered in time to throw Bradley out fairly easily. Inning over.

After Miley escaped another iffy inning in the 5th (benefiting from a sweet 5-3 double play by Sandoval after giving up two consecutive one-out singles), Boston regained the lead in the top of the 6th. Betts singled to start things off, even though second baseman Carlos Sanchez got to the ball, and Sandoval (batting well in the 2-hole) pulled a slow-rolling 0-2 double down the right field line to score Betts and give the Red Sox a 3-2 lead. And after Ortiz struck out, Shaw beat out a potential double play at first to bring Sandoval home and extend the lead to 4-2.

Unfortunately, Torey Lovullo chose to ignore how well Chicago had been hitting Miley (10 hits through 6 innings) and kept him on the mound, even when he got into trouble in the 7th. Gordon Beckham singled to get things started and advanced to second on a groundout by Adam Eaton, then went to third on a Miley wild pitch. The next better, Melky Cabrera, knocked him in on a single off the mound to make it 4-3. Miley was at 99 pitches at this point, so Lovullo would have been justified in removing him. But he struck out the next batter, Jose Abreu, before walking Avisail Garcia to bring up the batter nobody wanted to see: Trayce Thompson. Predictably, he doubled to left. Even worse, Hanley Ramirez did pretty much what you’d expect, botching an attempt to cut the ball off backhand and letting it get to the wall, and helping both Cabrera and Garcia to score easily in the process.

Ramirez was seen getting some work at first base pregame. That might be for the best. Alexi Ogando came in to get the last out of the 7th, but the damage was done. 5-4, White Sox.

From there, Boston had nothing left in the tank. They went 1-2-3-4-5-6 to end the game, with 5 out of the 6 striking out.

There was, however, one great reason for Red Sox fans to stick around for the end of this one. On a hit and run in the bottom of the 8th, Sanchez looked like a sure thing to make it to third on a single to right when Jackie Bradley did this:

So that was really cool, but Boston lost in the end, 5-4. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to watch “Here Comes the Pizza” 50 times in a row.