Sonny Gray has often joked, “I can spin the ball on the moon,” and Tuesday night, he pretty much proved it, giving a master class in pitching at altitude at Coors Field, a lunar launching pad for happy hitters and a place most pitchers don’t mind missing. “This place, if you give it an inch in your mental space, then it can start to take over,” Gray said after giving the Red Sox a second dominating pitching performance from a starter in as many nights. “Once you start making excuses, then it wears on you and you lose your confidence. I’m tricking my mind into believing that it can do anything.” The trick worked, as Gray paced the Red Sox to a 5-2 victory to even the series and set up a Wednesday rubber match finale. Gray pitched seven innings and allowed just one run on six hits and three walks while striking out a season-high 11 and matching his season high with 93 pitches. His biggest adjustment came after issuing a walk to the first batter he faced. “I just flipped my mindset, said some things to myself … that I needed to hear in that moment … and felt more normal, back to myself,” Gray said. “This team is super-aggressive, but we filled up the zone early, and we put the ball in some really good spots. We were able to take advantage of the aggressiveness.” His only blemish was a 435-foot homer to right in the second inning from Willi Castro. “\[Gray\
