"We've been working so hard to get to this point," Cora said. Perhaps the Red Sox could survive the offensive power outage with better pitching, but the starters have picked a lousy time to turn fetid, with righty Garrett Richards and lefty Martin Perez prime candidates to be bumped from the rotation for Chris Sale and Tanner Houck. 214 over the last three weeks with one homer. Martinez, so good in April and May, has hit the skids, batting just.
800 on June 24 and since then he's hitting just. Xander Bogaerts clearly isn't himself, perhaps because of a wrist injury, and is batting just. Tomase: Doubts about these Red Sox appear to start with ownership There's little question the Red Sox are dragging and would've benefited from more immediate help on July 30 than the injured Kyle Schwarber and a pair of relievers who got lit up Thursday. People can doubt us or they can feel like this team can do it, but bottom line, we have to show up every day and play better." "It looks like right now, we're a step slower, we're not moving well and I know we're in August and it's a grind, but we have an opportunity to play in October. "For us to pull this off, we have to play better baseball overall," he said. So when Cora sounded ticked off on Thursday, his justifications extended well beyond the last week. The Red Sox ranked third in runs in the first half with 464, 27th in the second half with 73, and they're dead last in August with only nine.
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Since the All-Star break, however, the starters are just 4-8 (.333, 24th) with an ERA more than a full run higher at 5.50 (25th), and they've only thrown a meager 86.2 innings (29th). 567 winning percentage and 4.47 ERA while throwing 475 innings, ranking sixth, 20th, and eighth, respectively in baseball. In the first half, Red Sox starters owned a. Red Sox move Chris Sale to 60-day injured list with shoulder injuryĬomparing the first half to the second, and then the second to what we've seen so far in August, paints the picture of a club broadly trending in the wrong direction for more than a month now.
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