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And it is the chief baseball officer of the Boston Red Sox, Craig Breslo, who joins us this morning.

Hey, Craig.

Hey, good morning.

Lucas G. Alito first start back last night. How did you think it went?

Yeah, I thought that he threw the ball really, really well, obviously. He kept us in the game,

gave us six innings. I thought he was really sharp. Fast fall change of command worked really,

really well. And I think more than anything, it was great for him, great for us, just to get him back

on the mound.

Craig, you guys, when you look at where you are with runs as a team pretty high, how do you

feel the bullpen is doing, though, because there are some games that you're losing

leads?

Yeah, I mean, I think've we've protected leaves quite well obviously

this morning it's easy to talk about last night's game but when we have a lead and we get the

ball to to guys like whitlock and slaten and chapman and there are others who are starting to emerge

we feel pretty good um you know and and i think others who are starting to emerge. We feel pretty good.

You know, and I think that's a credit to those guys.

It's the usage and keeping them fresh, and it's our starters being able to pitch deep into games.

Craig, you guys are two games over 500, and Wiggy brings up last night.

It was a close one there.

You've had some close games, but a majority of them have been either you guys have crushed a team or a team has crushed you guys. What do you

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