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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 3:41:33 GMT -5
8 walk off losses by the Red Sox this season
most in MLB ...
hahahahah
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 3:47:00 GMT -5
Injuries & Moves: Wacha nearing return
August 6th, 2022
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RHP Michael Wacha (right shoulder inflammation)
Expected return: Possibly Aug. 14
Manager Alex Cora said that Wacha will make one more rehab start on Tuesday. He was impressive in an Aug. 4 outing for Triple-A Worcester, retiring the first 13 hitters and 14 of 15 before exiting after 4 2/3 innings. Wacha struck out eight and walked one.
"The goal is one more rehab start and then join us at the end of the week," Cora said.
This is the second IL stint of the season for Wacha, who is 6-1 with a 2.69 ERA in 13 big league starts. He last pitched for the Red Sox on June 28. (Last updated: Aug. 6)
LHP Matt Strahm (left wrist contusion)
Expected return: Mid-to-late August
Manager Alex Cora said that Strahm is playing catch and "there's a good chance he'll throw a bullpen on Aug. 9." Strahm was hit on the left wrist by a line drive on July 12 against the Rays, but X-rays were negative. (Last updated: Aug. 6)
LHP Josh Taylor (lower back strain)
Expected return: TBD
Taylor has had repeated issues with his back, but manager Alex Cora said that Taylor threw a bullpen on Aug. 6 in Fort Myers, Fla. "It was a long one, too," Cora said.
Taylor has twice had his Minor League rehab assignment halted, most recently just before the All-Star break. (Last updated: Aug. 6)
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 3:52:45 GMT -5
RED SOX NOTEBOOK
Kutter Crawford making the most of his chance to impress Red Sox
By Peter Abraham Globe Staff,Updated August 6, 2022, 6:52 p.m.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — James Paxton, Nick Pivetta, and Chris Sale are the only experienced starters the Red Sox have under control for next season. That makes the remainder of this season a chance for rookies Brayan Bello, Kutter Crawford, and Josh Winckowski to further prove their worth.
Crawford, who is scheduled to face the Royals on Sunday afternoon, is at the head of the pack. He has a 3.11 earned run average over seven starts, with opponents posting a .657 OPS. His five-pitch mix has played against major league hitters.
Related: Chris Sale plays catch, and Red Sox remain hopeful he’ll pitch again in 2022
“His stuff has been really good and the mix has been outstanding,” manager Alex Cora said before Saturday’s 5-4 loss. “It seems like every outing is something different than the last one.”
Crawford’s backdoor cutter has proven effective against lefthanded hitters, and he’s had success with his elevated fastball. His fastball is a tick under 95 miles per hour and works well in concert with his other pitches.
“I feel like I have different weapons,” said Crawford, who made five starts in the Dominican winter league specifically to work on his secondary pitches. “The more starts I’ve made, the better it has gotten.”
Crawford held the Astros to one run over six innings at Minute Maid Park on Tuesday. He struck out six with one walk.
“He impressed me,” Houston manager Dusty Baker said after the game.
The work of the rookie starters has been a highlight for the Sox. They wouldn’t be in the hunt for a playoff spot without them.
“These kids, they’ve done an amazing job. Obviously, it’s not easy at this level. Teams are going to make adjustments,” Cora said. “It’s not the final product. They’re still learning, but they’re learning at the highest level. Just keep helping them out.”
The heat is on
There was a heat advisory in the Kansas City area on Saturday and the Sox limited their pregame activities on the field at the advice of their medical staff. It was 95 degrees at first pitch.
“It’s something we always take into consideration,” Cora said. “You’ve got to be smart and be in constant communication with the players. The good thing is we have Monday off, which is huge for us.”
With a day game Sunday and expected temperatures again in the 90s, Rafael Devers — who went 0 for 4 Saturday and is 3 for 19 (.158) on the road trip — could get a day off.
Sox third base coach Carlos Febles played for the Royals from 1998–2003. He said being able to play well in the oppressive heat was an advantage for Kansas City.
“It’s hard. But you do get used to it,” he said. “We had a turf infield in Double A Wichita. Now that was hot.”
One more for Michael Wacha
Michael Wacha set down 14 of the 15 hitters he faced pitching for Triple A Worcester on Thursday and threw 63 pitches. The Sox want the righthander to make one more injury rehabilitation start, and that will be Tuesday at Double A Portland against Richmond.
It’s Jarren Duran bobblehead night, so Wacha gets an added bonus.
“The goal is for one more rehab start, then join us at the end of the week,” Cora said.
Wacha is 6-1 with a 2.69 ERA over 13 MLB starts. He has been out since June 29 with a sore shoulder.
Cora spoke to second baseman Trevor Story and reported he “is in a good place” recovering from a small fracture in his right wrist. The hope is Story can start swinging during the coming homestand.
Lefthander Josh Taylor, out all season with a back injury, threw in the bullpen at Fenway South on Saturday. Lefthander Matt Strahm is back to playing as he returns from being hit on the left wrist by a line drive on July 12.
Outfielder Rob Refsynder, on the injured list with a right knee sprain, did some sprints before the game.
Kiké Hernández, who is moving closer to a rehab assignment, will have access to Fenway Park on Sunday with no concert on the schedule. He has recovered from a hip strain and is back to taking batting practice.
Sale will likely be at the ballpark, too. He’s back to playing catch as his broken left pinkie finger mends.
Sawamura’s split personality
Hirokazu Sawamura has allowed one earned run over 19 innings on the road this season and struck out 17 with only seven walks. Opponents have hit .141. At Fenway Park, he has given up 15 earned runs over 24⅓ innings and walked 13 with 17 strikeouts. Opponents have hit .274. “If you know a reason, please tell me,” Sawamura said via translator Yutaro Yamaguchi. “But I really don’t care about those kind of stats” . . . Eric Hosmer was out of the lineup Saturday. Cora wanted to give Bobby Dalbec a start with Kansas City starting lefthander Daniel Lynch, and Dalbec cracked a fourth-inning home run . . . Xander Bogaerts was 4 for 5 in Friday’s 7-4 victory. It was his 20th career game with four hits. He’s yet to have a five-hit game. Rafael Devers is the last Sox player with a five-hit game (Aug. 13, 2019, when he had six against Cleveland). He’s done it twice, as did Andrew Benintendi. “I’m not as good as those guys,” Bogaerts said, as Devers listened in. “My max is four hits. Only a hitter like Raffy or Benny can get five.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 3:55:01 GMT -5
Pete Abraham
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First 3 Sox hitters (Pham, Devers, Bogaerts) are 0 x 12, 6 Ks.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 3:55:51 GMT -5
Pete Abraham
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Worth mentioning: Garrett Whitlock has had a lot of success in the majors. He was furious tonight, as mad as I've ever seen him, but answered the questions @tomcaron
and I had as much as he probably didn't want to. The accountability was appreciated.
That was the first home run off a changeup Whitlock has allowed this season and only his second overall in 22 1/3 innings when pitching in relief this season.
Cora: "The stuff was really good. [Pratto] had a good at-bat. He just got beat.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 3:58:21 GMT -5
Nathan Eovaldi still struggling, Garrett Whitlock serves up walkoff home run in Red Sox’ loss to Royals
By Jason Mastrodonato | jason.mastrodonato@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: August 6, 2022 at 10:47 p.m. | UPDATED: August 6, 2022 at 10:53 p.m.
One reason the Red Sox felt like they didn’t need to improve much at the trade deadline was because of all the players they had coming off the injured list.
But as Nathan Eovaldi is showing right now, a smooth return isn’t guaranteed.
Something is off with Eovaldi, who was once again averaging just 94 mph on his fastball on Saturday as the Royals scored four runs off him, then walked it off against Garrett Whitlock in the ninth inning of the Red Sox’ 5-4 loss at Kauffman Stadium.
Eovaldi was averaging 97 mph on his signature heater for most of this year, but his velocity started dropping in June, when he was dealing with back and hip issues. He landed on the injured list retroactive to June 8, and didn’t return until July 15.
Since then, his fastball has disappeared.
Not only has the velocity decreased drastically, but the pitch itself has been less effective. He’s thrown 143 four-seam fastballs since coming off the injured list but has just seven swings-and-misses.
He had seven whiffs on his four-seam fastballs in a single game against the Orioles on May 28.
The Royals had a clear plan to attack Eovaldi and it worked well for them. He started the game with a 94 mph fastball right down the middle and M.J. Melendez blasted it 434 feet for a solo home run.
Eovaldi wasn’t locating his pitches well either, and a hanging slider to Bobby Witt Jr. in the third inning resulted in another Royals run.
The Red Sox offense kept clawing back, but Eovaldi couldn’t stop the bleeding.
After Bobby Dalbec hit a two-run homer to tie the game in the third, Eovaldi threw a 95 mph fastball dead-center to Kyle Isbel, who drove it to right field for go-ahead solo shot.
Still, for as flawed as Eovaldi looks right now, he managed to get through six innings, allowing four runs on seven hits and striking out seven.
“It didn’t look great, but he gave us six,” manager Alex Cora said on NESN after the game.
Without his best fastball, Eovaldi pumped splitters into the zone and made the Royals work for it.
The concern is that Eovaldi doesn’t look sharp and with his extensive injury history, it’s easy to wonder if he’s actually healthy.
Since returning, he’s allowed 20 earned runs in 25 1/3 innings (7.11 ERA) over five starts.
“We need to win all these games right now,” Eovaldi said on NESN. “Especially when I’m on the mound. I need to set the tone. Tonight I didn’t do that.”
If Eovaldi was pitching the way he was before the injury, it’s easy to see the Red Sox starting to gain momentum again. Starting pitching led the way to the team’s dominant month of June, while rookie pitchers stepped up to fill the holes left by Eovaldi and Whitlock.
Kutter Crawford has been on a magical run of late and Josh Winckowski has been serviceable, but Nick Pivetta has been inconsistent, Eovaldi has been terrible and Rich Hill looked rusty in his first start back from the injured list this week.
The Sox can’t count on Chris Sale or James Paxton, who may or may not be ready to pitch at some point in September.
The silver lining is Michael Wacha, who has looked sharp all year, needs just one more rehab start on Tuesday before he’s ready to rejoin the big league rotation.
But it’s not just the starting pitching to blame. The offense hasn’t done much lately either.
They’ve scored just 17 runs in five games since the trade deadline. It’s been going on even longer than that; since July 12, the Red Sox’ average of 3.3 runs per game ranks 27th in MLB.
Until Saturday, Alex Verdugo hadn’t homered since June 29. His sixth-inning solo shot barely cleared the wall in right-center, where a fan leaned over the railing and caught the ball in his cap. After an umpire review, the call was confirmed and the Sox tied the game.
That’s when Cora brought in Whitlock, who hadn’t pitched in a week.
The Sox’ ace reliever cruised through two innings of work and recorded two quick outs in the ninth before he left a 3-2 changeup to Nick Pratto over the middle of the plate. Pratto smoked it for a walkoff homer, the first time Whitlock has allowed a home run out of relief since Opening Day.
The Sox will have to win Sunday to avoid losing a series to the fourth-place Royals.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 3:59:37 GMT -5
Red Sox notebook: Eric Hosmer, Bobby Dalbec sharing time at first base
Hosmer benched in favor of Dalbec on Saturday
By Jason Mastrodonato | jason.mastrodonato@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: August 6, 2022 at 8:05 p.m. | UPDATED: August 6, 2022 at 8:10 p.m.
Eric Hosmer is the Red Sox’ new first baseman, but it appears Bobby Dalbec will continue to get opportunities as well.
For Saturday night’s road game against the Royals, Dalbec was in the Sox’ lineup playing first base against Royals’ lefty Daniel Lynch.
The right-handed hitting Dalbec has been better against lefties, hitting .235 with a .728 OPS off them this year, but remains far behind his pace against lefties last year, when he hit .278 with an .877 OPS.
Hosmer hits left-handed but has been an everyday player throughout his career. He entered the weekend hitting .320 with a .772 OPS off lefties.
Based on this year’s numbers alone, a platoon between Hosmer and Dalbec doesn’t make much sense. But Hosmer has struggled against lefties for most of his career, with a .254 average/.668 OPS compared to a .288 average/.811 OPS against righties.
He’s under contract for three more years and $39 million total, though the Padres are paying the entirety of that salary.
Dalbec, 27, is similarly making a salary near the league minimum and he won’t be arbitration eligible until 2024.
It remains to be seen how long the Red Sox go with Hosmer at first base. One of their top prospects, Triston Casas, is hitting just .212 with a .673 OPS and two homers in 13 games since returning to Triple-A Worcester after a two-month hiatus due to an ankle injury.
JBJ still available
As of Saturday, Jackie Bradley Jr. had yet to catch on with another team, though it shouldn’t take long for Bradley to latch on with a contender who needs help in the outfield.
The Sox are on the hook for the entirety of Bradley’s $11-million salary and any team that signs him will have to pay him only the league minimum.
The Sox could’ve used Bradley on Friday night, when Jarren Duran took another bad route in center field that nearly cost the Sox a run.
Kyle Isbel lifted a long flyball toward the center field warning track and Duran’s first step was in, then he was too slow to adjust and couldn’t catch up as the ball bounced off his glove and into the wall. He was once again slow to retrieve the ball and Isbel made it to third with an easy triple.
A natural second baseman, Duran ranks as one of the worst defensive center fielders in baseball, according to defensive runs saved. He’s cost the Sox six runs worse than average, which ranks him 65th out of 69 center fielders with at least 100 innings this year.
Duran was on the bench in favor of Jaylin Davis on Saturday. Davis made a diving catch in center field in the second inning.
Reyes on the waiver wire
The Sox may want to take a look at 27-year-old Franmil Reyes, Cleveland’s slugging first baseman who was designated for assignment on Saturday.
Reyes, listed at 6-5, 265 pounds, entered 2022 with an .828 OPS over four big league seasons, but has struggled mightily with the Guardians this year. He’s hitting .213 with a .603 OPS and a remarkable 104 strikeouts in 280 plate appearances.
But he’s still arbitration eligible for two more seasons, if the Sox want to work him in the mix with Hosmer and Dalbec, though it would be tough to squeeze three first baseman-types on the same roster as designated hitter J.D. Martinez.
Pedro voices concern
Boston is a tough town to struggle in, and now the Red Sox have one of their own, Pedro Martinez, being critical of the team’s trade deadline moves.
Martinez told MLB Network this week that the Sox’ trades made no sense to him.
“I just don’t see where the path is, really, for the Red Sox,” Martinez said, according to WEEI.com. “They have a headache with (Rafael) Devers. They have a headache with the most consistent player they’ve ever had, Xander Bogaerts. They just got rid of (Christian) Vazquez, who figured that out in the middle of the field. I have a hard time understanding where the thought process is.”
Wacha on the mend
Injured starter Michael Wacha, who threw 4 2/3 hitless innings on a rehab start with Triple-A Worcester on Thursday, will make one more rehab start Tuesday before he makes it back to the Red Sox, manager Alex Cora told reporters in Kansas City.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 4:00:57 GMT -5
Chris Cotillo
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Both the first and last pitches thrown by Red Sox pitchers left the ballpark tonight.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 4:11:30 GMT -5
Red Sox @ Royals
7th August 2022
2pm @ Kauffman Stadium
Crawford 3-3/3.86
Keller 5-12/ 4.61
Boston Red Sox vs.Kansas City Royals
Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 2:10pm EDT
Written by Adam Rauzino
The Boston Red Sox (54-54, 56-52 RL, 48-51-9 O/U) take on the Kansas City Royals (42-65, 48-59 RL, 54-52-1 O/U) in the three-game series finale on Sunday afternoon. The Red Sox will give the nod to rookie Kutter Crawford targeting his fourth win. The Royals will counter with Brad Keller. The season series is 1-1.
Crawford Seeks Fourth Win
The Red Sox will have Kutter Crawford on the hill for the 17th time of the season. Crawford was stellar in his previous start, limiting the Astros to only one run in six innings, and earned the win to improve his record to 3-3. The rookie right-hander is enjoying a promising start to his career, recording a 3.86 ERA and a 1.23 WHIP in 53.2 innings pitched. Crawford has 56 strikeouts on the season. This is his first career meeting against the Royals.
Boston concludes a six-game road trip in this one. They won two of three in Houston this week, marking their first series triumph in quite some time. The Red Sox are still in the Wildcard picture, standing four games out. They are wildly inconsistent and have been committing a ton of errors.
Xander Bogaerts is in a groove at the dish, recording eight RBIs in his last eight games. The 29-year-old shortstop is having another productive season, logging a remarkable .345 average with 47 RBIs, and a stellar .847 OPS. Bogaerts is a solid 4 for 9 with one RBI in this series.
The Red Sox are scoring an average of 4.49 runs per game, ranking them 13th overall. The pitching staff has logged a 4.29 team ERA, placing them 24th in the Major Leagues.
Keller Seeks Rebound After Disastrous Outing
Brad Keller will make his 21st start of the season on Sunday. Keller was clobbered in his latest effort, squandering eight runs in 5.2 innings against the White Sox, and was tagged with the loss to dip to 5-12 on the season. The veteran right-hander was pitching well prior to that outing and enters with a poor 4.61 ERA and a 1.38 WHIP in 113.1 innings of work on the season. He has struggled in a big way against Boston, allowing 15 runs in 16.2 career innings.
It has been a tough schedule for the Royals who have lost three series in a row, including defeats to the Yankees and White Sox. They will especially have trouble winning games now that they traded key hitters last week as the rebuild continues.
Michael A. Taylor is consistent reaching base. He hit .286 last month and has four hits in four games this month. The 31-year-old center fielder is now hitting .277 with 28 RBIs and a strong .733 OPS on the season. Taylor is 2 for 5 in this series.
The Royals are averaging 3.83 runs, landing them 26th overall. The pitching staff has filed a 4.70 team ERA, pegging them 27th in the big leagues.
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Sunday, at 2:10 PM EST
Partly Cloudy
According to Forecast.io, it's expected to be 93° F with a 0% chance of precipitation and 12 MPH wind blowing out in Kansas City at 2:10 PM EST.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 7:58:51 GMT -5
Royals put homegrown talent on display against Red Sox
FLM
For the second time this season, and just the third time in the 54-year franchise history -- the Kansas City Royals fielded a starting lineup (including the starting pitcher) consisting of homegrown players Friday night.
With much of the starting rotation drafted and signed by the team, there's a strong possibility of that happening more frequently.
And while it won't occur on Sunday, the future is looking up for the Royals, who will complete a four-game series with the visiting Boston Red Sox.
Right-hander Brad Keller (5-12, 4.61 ERA) will take the mound for the Royals, while Kutter Crawford (3-3, 3.86) will start for the Red Sox. The Royals will claim the series with a victory.
Rookie Nick Pratto hit a walk-off home run with two outs in the ninth to give the Royals a 5-4 victory Saturday night. The Royals led three times, but Boston kept responding to tie it. Pratto's first career walk-off hit left no time for Boston to come back again, however.
According to FanGraph, Kansas City's 17 homegrown players are the most in the majors, four more than Cleveland and Colorado with 13. Nine of the 10 Royals players in Saturday's lineup were homegrown. The only exception was center fielder Michael A. Taylor, who was drafted by Washington in 2009.
Previously in the Arizona Diamondbacks' system, Keller came out of the Rule 5 draft before the 2018 season. He had an outstanding rookie campaign in 2018, finishing 9-6, but he's struggled in three of the four seasons since.
Early this season, he had trouble finding the strike zone, falling to 2-9 after 14 starts. Once the calendar turned to July, he seemed to find some answers and won his next three starts. But he's lost his past three, including allowing a season-high eight runs on 13 hits in 5 2/3 innings against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday.
"I felt like we had a really good game plan," Keller said after his outing in Chicago. "I felt like I went after a lot of guys. I felt like I was ahead a lot, and they just kept getting hits. I felt I executed pretty well. Obviously, you're going to have some pitches throughout a game that you don't quite execute down and away or inside.
"But for the most part, I felt like I kept the ball on the ground, and it just kept finding holes. It's frustrating. It's a tough one to swallow."
Keller is 0-1 with a lofty 8.10 ERA in five career appearances (three starts) against the Red Sox.
Crawford, who throws a cutter about 30 percent of the time, will face the Royals for the first time. He made his major-league debut last September with a two-inning outing (five runs allowed) against Cleveland.
He's alternated losses and wins in 2022. He matched his season high with six innings in his Tuesday outing in Houston. He allowed just one run on seven hits to earn the win.
"He was really good," Red Sox manager Alex Cora said on NESN's postgame coverage. "They came out swinging, as they always do, but he was able to slow it down and make some pitches, start mixing up pitches. Today we needed him to go deeper, and he was really good. He's been outstanding for us."
--Field Level Media
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Post by Kimmi on Aug 7, 2022 8:17:56 GMT -5
8 walk off losses by the Red Sox this season
most in MLB ...
hahahahah The walk of losses, or wins, are really not an indictment of how bad or good a team is. As a fan, it hurts, but those 1 run losses are due more to randomness than to skill or talent. |
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 8:42:37 GMT -5
How one pitch put a dagger in the Red Sox
By Rob Bradford
WEEI 93.7
17 minutes ago
Two pitchers. Two pitches. One big dose of unexpected reality.
The first pitch of what would be a Red Sox 5-4, walk-off loss to the Royals was a 93.7 mph fastball from Nathan Eovaldi that MJ Melendez hit 434 feet for a leadoff homer.
The second was Garrett Whitlock's two-out, 3-2 changeup to Nick Pratto that also resulted in a home run, this one leading to the celebratory ice bath and a demoralized Red Sox team.
Two of the club's best pitchers throwing what was supposed to be their best pitches. It was a microcosm of the Red Sox' existence. Best laid plans that just haven't quite worked out.
It was tough to pin blame on this one considering Whitlock had breezed through his first eight batters without incident. The Sox had also showed admirable resiliency, fighting back twice behind homers from Bobby Dalbec and Alex Verdugo.
But this is a results business and the results of this one was tough for the Red Sox to swallow.
Not only did you lose for the second time in three days to a team 22 games under .500, but fell four games out of a Wild Card spot in the process.
Making the Sox' existence even more uncomfortable is the fact that after one final game against the Royals, they have a week's worth of contests against two playoff teams (the Braves and Yankees), with one make-up against an Orioles squad that has won five in a row.
The Red Sox might have players coming back, but games like this significantly diminishes any hope that might come with such good news. They are in last-place by a full three games.
It was one pitch and one game. But the bigger picture they presented seemed like so much more.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 9:48:57 GMT -5
Pete Abraham
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Sox are 3-3 on a road trip that ends today. They have hit .212/.264/.349 and scored 20 runs.
Now have fifth-worst run differential in the AL at -22.
Only 4 games out of last WC but four teams between them and that spot.
1-3 since the deadline.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 12:48:50 GMT -5
Game 110: Red Sox at Royals lineups and notesBy Amin Touri Globe Staff,Updated August 7, 2022, 2 hours ago After a tough loss in Kansas City on Saturday night, the Red Sox can even the series — and their record on the season — against the Royals in a Sunday matinee. Rookie Kutter Crawford, often a bright spot in a struggling Sox rotation, will look to salvage the split for Boston. The righthander is coming off back-to-back strong starts, allowing two earned runs over 11 ⅔ innings against the Guardians and Astros. Brad Keller has the ball for the hosts with hopes of putting his career struggles against Boston behind him; he has an 8.10 ERA in five appearances against the Sox. Keller is coming off his worst start of the season — an eight-run, 13-hit shelling at the hands of the White Sox on Tuesday. Lineups RED SOX (54-55): Pham LF, Devers 3B, Bogaerts SS, Verdugo RF, Martinez DH, Hosmer 1B, Arroyo 2B, McGuire C, Duran CF Pitching: RHP Kutter Crawford (3-3, 3.86 ERA) ROYALS (43-65): Melendez C, Witt Jr. SS, Perez DH, Dozier 3B, Pratto 1B, Taylor CF, Massey 2B, Eaton RF, Isbel LF Pitching: RHP Brad Keller (5-12, 4.61 ERA) Time: 2:10 p.m. TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7 Red Sox vs. Keller: Bogaerts 3-8, Dalbec 4-5, Devers 1-7, Martinez 3-9, McGuire 1-3, Pham 3-6, Sánchez 7-23, Verdugo 2-4 Royals vs. Crawford: Has not faced any Kansas City batters Stat of the day: Saturday was the Red Sox’ 8th walk-off loss this season, most in the majors.Notes: For the second time this season, and just the third time in franchise history, the Kansas City Royals fielded a starting lineup (including the starting pitcher) consisting of homegrown players Friday night ... Keller has only three no-decisions this season, with an American League-leading 12 losses and a 13-game decision streak ... Crawford has a 2.90 ERA since April 23, and has alternated wins and losses in his few decisions this season ... The Sox are 5-5 in their last 10 games, after going 5-15 in their previous 20 games ... A triumph Sunday would give Boston a winning record for the seven-game road trip after going 2-1 in Houston. Song of the Day: The Band - The Weightwww.youtube.com/watch?v=q-w9OclUnns
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 7, 2022 12:53:22 GMT -5
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Sox rotation coming up this week:
Tuesday vs. Braves: Hill
Wednesday vs. Braves: Pivetta
Thursday vs. Orioles: Winckowski
Friday vs. Yankees: Eovaldi
Saturday vs. Yankees: Crawford
Sunday vs. Yankees: TBA. Could be Wacha.
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