BALTIMORE — When Red Sox rookie Chase Shugart made his major league debut Thursday night at Camden Yards, he had his own personal cheering squad courtesy of some convenient flight paths.
Shugart, a 27-year-old right-hander who was called up from Triple-A on Monday, had about 20 friends and family members in Boston for the Sox’ three-game series against the Rangers. He didn’t pitch in any of those games before making his first big league road trip to Baltimore for the four-game series that began Thursday. Originally, the plan was for most of his family members to fly back home to Houston, where the Sox will play a series beginning Monday (100 miles away from Shugart’s hometown of Bridge City). But the layover gods had something else in mind.
