Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did.
There isn’t a single aspect of the team game that the Red Sox are doing well right now.
The pitching has been poor. The hitting has been horrendous. The baserunning has been embarrassing. The defense has been indefensible.
That’s a bad combination on a team that was built on pitching and defense.
The starting staff—the same one that was thought to be the best in all of baseball—currently has the worst ERA of any rotation in the game. The bullpen has lost four games. The offense is 0-for-its-last-32 with runners in scoring position.
Entering play today, the team was 11th in the AL in defense (nine errors and .980 fielding percentage). Baserunners have been routinely thrown out on the bases (I promise I wo ...
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Red Sox-Rays: Boston Completes Weekend Sleepwalk with 8-2 Loss to Tampa Bay
Posted: 19th April 2010 by Jeffrey Brown in MLBComments Off on Red Sox-Rays: Boston Completes Weekend Sleepwalk with 8-2 Loss to Tampa Bay