The eighth inning, in particular, has been Farrell’s albatross. On Tuesday against the Tampa Bay Rays, he announced that Clay Buchholz would become his penultimate man out of the bullpen, only to watch the embattled righty surrender a game-winning home run to Red Sox-killer Evan Longoria. On Wednesday, things got even worse as Farrell called on Junichi Tazawa, a guy who has had a worse summer than Paul LePage, to take over for terrible deadline acquisition Fernando Abad, who loaded the bases with two outs.
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