Ranger Suarez worth the money; bullpen management; AL parity helping: Red Sox takeaways

BOSTON — For the first four innings Thursday, Ranger Suarez hardly looked as if it had been 11 days since he last pitched.The 30-year-old left-hander retired 12 of the first 13 batters he faced against his former team, the Philadelphia Phillies, with a walk, his only base runner in the early innings. And even when the Phillies finally got to him in the fifth, stringing together three singles to load the bases with one out, Suarez didn’t waver.Advertisement