👉 A 'red Sox score' is like when you're trying to hit a home run with a baseball bat, but instead of a sweet 60, you end up with a crimson-colored, slightly deflated ball that's just barely making it around the bases. It's the ultimate underdog achievement, but in a way that screams "I didn't expect this."
Now, here's an unsettling example sentence: "The 'red Sox score' of her heartbreak was not the thrill of a perfectly pitched pitch, but the agonizing realization that she'd traded her future for a single, crimson-rimmed baseball card."
