The Red Sox have diagnosed Mayer with a right wrist sprain, and there's still no clear sense of just how long he'll be out or how long this injury might linger. Suddenly, though, Boston's unwillingness to entertain even healthy offers for Duran makes a bit more sense.

Boston had chances all night long, at least one baserunner in nine of 10 innings, but their clutch factor was M.I.A. and in the bottom of the 10th, it was the Phillies who triumphed, albeit in one of the most bizarre endings baseball has seen in a long time: A walk-off on bases-loaded catcher’s interference, determined on a replay review.