Red Sox drop series to Padres, but more importantly: DAVE ROBERTS

It's an old trope by now, but the results of this series will have some fans wishing that the Red Sox could have saved some of their fourteen-run onslaught Monday night for the next two games. Selfishly, though, I'm happy to have been in attendance for the blowout win, which also marked another return by DAVE ROBERTS to the city where he'll never have to buy a meal or a drink. The stork-legged Andrew Miller, filling in for Clay Buchholz, put up goose eggs through five, but then a three-run homer by second baseman Orlando Hudson in the sixth erased his good work and tied up the game. The kid would leave with a no decision, but in the bottom of the seventh the Red Sox offense would seem to **** its head at the Padres, murmur, 'isn't that cute?' and then bury them with a spectacular 10-run inning that induced riotous joy at Fenway Park. It was a beautiful thing to witness, but nothing was more beautiful than the sight of DAVE ROBERTS (and yes, his full name wi...