Alex Bregman met Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer this spring, the two Boston Red Sox uber-prospects greeted him with a proposition: Let us play student to your teacher. Bregman, who joined the Red Sox days earlier on a three-year,

In a game that was both everything the Red Sox could be and everything they’re ultimately not, the evening’s events culminated in catastrophic calamity as the club who can’t close completely collapsed in consecutive choke jobs.