BOSTON — Instant reactions as the Red Sox (18-19) fall below .500 as Lucas Giolito gets shelled at soggy Fenway and Boston falls, 6-1, to the Rangers:

Lucas Giolito returned to the mound for the Boston Red Sox last week, after over a year on the injured list. He’s been recovering from a UCL tear sustained during spring training. This spring, he was delayed by a hamstring injury.

Alex Bregman knows one can. The Jewish Red Sox star spent the team’s April 28 off-day in Toronto at the Nova Exhibition, a traveling installation designed to “empower visitors to responsibly explore & bear witness” to the massacre perpetrated by Hamas in southern Israel and at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023.

Alex Bregman hit a tiebreaking two-run single and had a solo homer, Wilyer Abreu added two solo shots and the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 6-4 to snap a three-game losing streak

For how much the Red Sox have struggled of late, Wednesday had the makings of game that could propel them in the right direction.