The Sox were incensed after blowing a ninth-inning lead Sunday, but a rebuilding clubhouse is seeing signs of growth after the 5-4 loss.

It became a bit null and void, though, after Pederson fractured his right hand midway through a nightmarish 10-5 loss against the Chicago White Sox at Rate Field in which the Rangers fumbled those very minutiae of competent baseball that he’d called for. It triggered another failed escape from the ongoing funk that they’re so helplessly trapped in.