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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 13:46:44 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 3m This seems worth mentioning now:
Red Sox 8-5 when they score 4 or more runs, 2-13 when they score three or less.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 13:52:09 GMT -5
JDM starts the 9th with a 2B Cordero in to run for him
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 13:52:58 GMT -5
Vazquez hacks at first pitch and pops up saves a base running error later
Verdugo k's swinging
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 14:01:21 GMT -5
and the Red Sox get swept off day how low can we go?
hahahahahahahaha
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Post by scrappyunderdog on May 8, 2022 14:03:44 GMT -5
Another good pitching performance wasted. That's 2.65 rpg scored over the past 20 games. It's almost impossible to pitch well enough to win these games.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 14:40:39 GMT -5
Red Sox 2, White Sox 3: This is getting old
Another day, another loss. By Stephen-Thompson May 8, 2022, 3:14pm EDT 10 Comments
It was the same story, just a different day — almost nothing went right for the Red Sox on Mother’s Day.
Michael Wacha, who’s been the Sox’s best pitcher so far this season, was scratched and placed on the 15-day IL with left side soreness an hour and a half before first pitch. That was unexpected, but the routine annoyances appeared too. The Red Sox played sloppy defense at times and came up aggravatingly short with runners in scoring position during an unsurprising and uninspiring 3-2 loss to the White Sox.
The Sox wasted no time creating scoring opportunities that they absolutely did not plan on converting. In the first, they put runners on first and second with one out, but a pop out on the infield by Xander Bogaerts and a line out from JD Martinez ended the threat.
The Red Sox jumped on Dallas Keuchel early, putting runners on first and second with one out, but in mind-numbingly familiar fashion, they squandered a chance to score. After Rafael Devers laced a single up the middle to initiate the threat, Xander Bogaerts popped out in the infield and JD Martinez lined out to right.
In the second, Alex Verdugo reached on a sorely-needed hard-hit single to left, but whatever momentum he created was immediately marred by a truly pathetic strike-em-out-throw-em-out double play. Bobby Dalbec waved hopelessly at strike three and Verdugo didn’t even attempt a slide into second because the ball arrived about three seconds before he did.
But wait, there’s more! In the third, after the White Sox posted a three-spot in the top half, the Red Sox saw just six pitches in the bottom half before being retired. And in the fourth, after Keuchel had been sitting in the dugout for nearly a half hour because home plate umpire had to leave the game after being struck in the mask with a foul ball, the Red Sox put runners on first and second with no one out. Martinez then came up and ripped a hard double down the — hahahahahahahaha could you imagine? No, Martinez actually grounded the first pitch he saw into a double play and Christian Vázquez struck out with Devers standing on third.
On the mound, Tanner Houck was pretty good. He pitched two really efficient, scoreless innings before tailing off in the third. He ended his day having been charged with three earned runs, but it’s tough for me to say that they were all his fault.
He did give up a single and a free pass to the seven and eight hitters before nine-hitter Danny Mendick bunted to move runners to second and third. But the “single” from Leury García that plated the first run was a weak grounder that snuck under Devers’ glove. And on the “double” from that scored two runs, Verdugo was slow getting the ball in from left field, allowing Luis Robert — not necessarily a speedster — to score from second.
Hirokazu Sawamura relieved Houck, who probably wasn’t going to go much longer anyway. Because he was making a spot start for the recently injured Michael Wacha, Alex Cora was always going to lean heavily on the bullpen.
Sawamura got Yasmani Grandal to fly out quickly to end the inning and then pitched a clean fourth, despite a 15-minute delay to adjust the umpiring crew after home plate umpire Ron Kulpa left the game. Tyler Danish, the corresponding move for Wacha to the IL, pitched a scoreless inning and a third despite hitting Harrison and letting up a single and Austin Davis kept the White Sox off the scoreboard for 1.2 innings.
The Red Sox recorded eight hits through six innings and five of them came off of the bats of Bogearts and Devers. Those two started a rally in the top of the sixth by sandwiching a Trevor Story strikeout with two hits. Devers went first to third on the second single, allowing Martinez to push a run across with a slow roller to third. Vazquez finally delivered the clutch hit the Red Sox had been looking for in the next at bat, lining a one-run single to left field to pull Boston within one at 3-2.
Robles took over for the seventh and did his job. So did Jake Diekman in the eighth and Matt Strahm in the ninth. 6.1 scoreless innings from the Boston bullpen gave them a chance to complete the comeback. But the Sox did little — one hit, no walks and four strikeouts — with their final six outs.
Matt Foster struck out trebor Story, Devers and Bogaerts in the eighth. Then in the ninth, Jose Ruiz let up a high, long and loud double to Martinez that — if not for the strong winds blowing in, would have tied the game. After he got Vazquez to pop out to Harrison in short right field and Verdugo to strike out, Tony La Russa pulled Ruiz for rookie Bennett Souza, who promptly took care of pinch hitter Kevin Plawecki. Given three attempts to tie the game with a runner on second, the Red Sox failed to convert.
This loss marks the firth in a row for Boston, their longest streak of the season. They are 10-19 and it’s no longer early. They’re in trouble.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 14:42:15 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25
Red Sox are 10-19. They've been swept in this series.
Boston would need to go 80-53 the rest of the way just to reach 90 wins.
It's no longer early. They're in major trouble.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 14:43:10 GMT -5
Jon Couture @joncouture · 40m This #RedSox run of play really is staggering. They're in almost every game, and yet, it feels like the odds of them coming through is zero.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 14:44:56 GMT -5
Jason Mastrodonato @jmastrodonato · 1h Trevor Story strikes out again. He's 1-for-12 with 6 strikeouts this series. Entered today with a 32% strikeout rate, 9th-worst among 174 qualified players. Still batting in the top part of the Red Sox' order.
Red Sox lose. They've lost five straight. They've scored 10 total runs in those losses. They're 10 games back in the AL East.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 14:48:49 GMT -5
Lou Merloni @loumerloni · 1h Foster, Graveman and Hendricks. Must be nice.
I have to imagine Seabold will be up soon. Can’t have Houck and Whitlock in rotation. There’s nothing left out there in the pen
3-12 last 15.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 14:51:09 GMT -5
Boston Sports Info @bostonsportsinf ·
Red Sox starting pitching
Since April 23rd
14 GS - 70.2 IP - 1.66 ERA
Red Sox are (3-11, .214) in those games
Just incredible
Sox offense
Runs by inn. (1-6) - last 14 games
1st- 0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0 2nd- 0,2,0,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 3rd- 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0 4th- 0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0 5th- 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1 6th- 0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
84 innings - 18 runs
damn
72 of the 84 innings the Red Sox played they scored 0 runs - 85.7%
Most runs in an innings
3 runs - 1x 2 runs - 4x 1 run - 7x 0 runs - 72x
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 8, 2022 14:53:01 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 50m The Red Sox are averaging 2.65 runs per game in their last 20 games (5 W, 15 L).
2 runs or fewer in 12 of those games.
Plus 3 and 4 runs twice, and 5 runs three times.
Sad
Since Dalbec's 30 game hot streak last year, he's gone 13 for 112 with 43 strikeouts.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2022 16:29:18 GMT -5
Another good pitching performance wasted. That's 2.65 rpg scored over the past 20 games. It's almost impossible to pitch well enough to win these games. Never imagined this offense could perform this poorly. As you said the pitching has good enough.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 9, 2022 3:29:59 GMT -5
'It's not going our way' but Red Sox confident May 8th, 2022 Molly Burkhardt
Molly Burkhardt @mollyburkhardt
BOSTON -- By all accounts, Sunday was not the Red Sox’s day.
Roughly 30 minutes before the first pitch, scheduled starter Michael Wacha was placed on the 15-day injured list with left intercostal irritation. Tanner Houck got the start instead, going 2 2/3 innings in Boston’s 3-2 loss to the White Sox in the series finale at Fenway Park. The loss sealed a series sweep for Chicago and a season-high fifth straight loss for the Red Sox, who dropped to 10-19 and 10 1/2 games behind the Yankees in the AL East, pending the outcome of the second game of New York’s doubleheader against the Rangers.
The first five innings followed a recent trend for Boston, as the bats were held to just five hits by starter Dallas Keuchel, who entered the game with an 8.40 ERA. The Red Sox got on the board in the sixth, after back-to-back singles from Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts set up Devers to score on J.D. Martinez’s groundout. One batter later, Christian Vázquez drove in Boston’s only other run of the game on an RBI single to left.
The Red Sox, who have a minus-23 run differential on the season, scored just five runs in the three-game series. The heart of the lineup in Devers, Bogaerts and Martinez accounted for six of Boston’s nine hits and both runs scored Sunday. That trio entered the day hitting .309 with an .833 OPS. The rest of the lineup? A combined .188 average with a .528 OPS.
“Yeah, very surprised,” Devers said of the team’s lack of results on offense. “I know the quality team that we have, so I know in the end everything is going to turn out and we’re going to get to our full potential. But right now, it’s not going our way. But we’re working every day to get to where we need to get.”
One surprise in particular has been Trevor Story’s slow start with his new team. Story, who faced an abbreviated Spring Training after his late signing and the birth of his first child left him little time at camp, is batting .194 with 35 strikeouts, including five in this series. After striking out four times against Shohei Ohtani in the series finale against the Angels on Thursday, Story headed directly to the batting cage following the last out.
“As an offense, we’re not doing too much,” manager Alex Cora said. “We cannot look at one guy to get the offense going. He [Story] knows he’s working, and we know he’s going to be better. Right now, he doesn’t look great, but we trust the player.”
The Red Sox had 10 hard-hit balls (95 mph or higher exit velocity) on Sunday, with the hardest coming off Christian Arroyo’s bat on a 107.6 mph double in the fifth inning. Five of the hardest balls were hits, with the other five resulting in flyouts or groundouts, including Martinez’s run-scoring groundout in the sixth.
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“We need to make solid contact in the zone,” Cora said. “And there was some progress today, but we still have to get better.”
Even White Sox manager Tony La Russa shared in the surprise over Boston’s slow start to the season.
“I wouldn’t have bet on it. I have a lot of confidence in our team, but I know how good they [the Red Sox] are,” La Russa said. “They were all really intense, tense, stressful games. No leeway there to think anything except prepare for the worst and hope for the best. They hit some balls hard. Their time is coming. They’re too good.”
The Red Sox have an off-day on Monday followed by a two-game set in Atlanta and a three-game series in Arlington to face the Rangers. They’re hoping the day of rest and upcoming road trip can serve as a reset and spark a turnaround for the season.
“I mean, every time you lose, it’s gonna be hard,” said Houck, who was charged with three runs in his first start since April 21. “This team’s gone through a lot at the beginning. But it’s a very strong and mentally tough team, so I’m excited for when everything does turn around and we truly show our potential.
“I don’t think this is even half of our best, but just keep showing up every day, keep working, keep doing the little things, because they matter. And no matter how hard of a time you’re going through, you gotta continue to work, continue to push. And that’s how you get yourself out of these holes.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 9, 2022 3:39:50 GMT -5
RED SOX NOTEBOOK Red Sox place pitcher Michael Wacha on 15-day injured list with left side soreness after late Sunday scratch By Peter Abraham Globe Staff,Updated May 8, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
It didn’t take long for bad news to smack the Red Sox on Sunday. Righthander Michael Wacha was scratched from his start because of soreness on his left side below his armpit and placed on the 15-day injured list retroactive to May 5.
Tanner Houck started in his place and allowed three runs over 2⅔ innings in a 3-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
When Alex Cora met with reporters at 10:10 a.m., he said an MRI taken Saturday was clean and that Wacha should be ready to pitch against Texas in the series that starts Friday. An hour later, the team announced Wacha had “left intercostal irritation” and was going on the IL.
Cora said that when Wacha played catch, he “didn’t feel great,” and the decision was made to use the injured list.
“We’re playing here for the long run so we have to be smart,” the manager said.
Wacha threw in the bullpen on Friday and felt discomfort when he woke up Saturday.
“Was hoping it would kind of fade away after a day or two and it ended up kind of just sticking around,” Wacha said.
The Sox are being careful because Wacha tore an oblique muscle and fractured a rib on his left side in 2018 and missed the final 3½ months of the season.
Wacha said this is mild by comparison. His hope is to throw in the bullpen later this week and return to the rotation when he’s eligible on May 20.
Wacha is 3-0 with a 1.38 earned run average in five games. The Red Sox are 4-1 in his starts.
With Rich Hill on the COVID-19 injured list, the Sox are down two starters. Scheduled days off Monday and Thursday will make that easier to manage.
Hill is feeling better, Cora said, and is hoping to get cleared in the coming days.
Donny Bowes remembered
The Sox held a ceremony before the game to honor Donny Bowes, a beloved Fenway Park security supervisor for 15 years who was struck by a car and killed in March.
With his co-workers aligned behind the mound, the team welcomed Bowes’ wife Christine onto the field along with his children Donny, Jennifer, Shane, and Matt and his brother, Tom. The family was presented with a “Bowes” nameplate from the scoreboard and a framed jersey.
To commemorate Bowes’s love of wrestling, the Sox also made up a championship belt that will be given to the security staffer who goes above and beyond. WWE star Sasha Banks presented the belt to Matt Bowes, who then threw out the first pitch.
Banks, who began her pro career in Massachusetts and is billed as being from Boston, was at Fenway Park for the first time. Sad Story
Trevor Story was 0 for 4 and struck out three times. He is hitting .194 with strikeouts in 35 of his 93 at-bats.
Story doubled in consecutive at-bats on Wednesday, and is since 1 for 18 with 11 strikeouts and one walk. Story has hit first, second or third in 17 games and sixth in six other games.
Given all the other struggling hitters, how far can they drop him?
“We’ll see where we’re at,” Cora said. “We have to work. Whatever lineup we have Tuesday is the lineup we’ll have Tuesday and we have to be better . . . We know he’s going to be better. Right now it doesn’t look great. But we trust the player.”
Umpire Ron Kulpa leaves game
Home plate umpire Ron Kulpa left the game in the top of the fourth inning after being struck squarely in the facemask by a foul ball off the bat of Chicago’s Jake Burger. Kulpa fell and landed in the dirt after the impact and was attended to by the Red Sox athletic training staff before coming off the field. The game was delayed for 17 minutes while Marty Foster got the protective gear on to work the plate . . . Righthanded reliever Tyler Danish was recalled from Triple A Worcester to replace Wacha on the roster. He pitched a scoreless inning . . . Lefthanded reliever Josh Taylor remains shut down after experiencing further pain in his lower back. His last minor league rehab appearance was April 27, so once Taylor is ready he will have to start from scratch building up arm strength . . . The players, coaches, and umpires wore pink-accented gear to commemorate Mother’s Day . . . The Sox will fly to Atlanta on Monday so they can spend part of the off day at home . . . The Sox fell to 4-9 at Fenway Park and 3-7 in games decided by one run . . . J.D. Martinez is 16 of 46 (.348) during an 11-game hitting streak . . . The Sox announced a crowd of 28,602. There were pockets of empty seats throughout the park. The unusual 11:35 start time, and cold and windy weather surely contributed to that along with the state of the team.
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