Boston Red Sox: Suddenly the Yankees aren’t the team that sucks
Once upon a time, the Boston Red Sox were sitting on top of the American League East while the New York Yankees were stinking up the Bronx.
Once upon a time, the Red Sox were the comeback kings of baseball. They were resilient, clutch, had good pitching when it counted. Most of all they were having fun.
Where did those days go? Following a three-game sweep at the hands of the Yankees, the same team they dominated at the beginning of the season, the Sox are the team that sucks, and the fun has all but evaporated out of the clubhouse.
In losing 14 of their last 20 games, Alex Cora’s team find themselves suddenly on the outside looking in at even a Wild Card spot. The hitting has gone basically silent during that stretch except for a couple of offensive explosions and the bullpen has blown lead after lead.
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The Boston Red Sox have gone silent in all phases of the game
Now 69-54 on the season, the desperation is now setting in. The team has Chris Sale back, but now Nathan Eovaldi, Eduardo Rodriguez and Wednesday’s losing pitcher Nick Pivetta can’t find that consistency on the mound they had at the beginning of the season.
Offensively, they all seem to go silent at the same time. Rafael Devers, who owns the Yankees, suddenly couldn’t get a hit during the three-game series and both J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts struggled at the plate as well. When those three aren’t hitting, it seems any starting pitcher has their number.
Once upon a time there was a lot of fun in that dugout, but suddenly a team exceeding expectations are one silent bunch of pretenders.
"“It’s very quiet today, I’ll tell you that,” Cora said following the game, via MLB.com. “It’s very quiet in the clubhouse, and understandably so. It’s a different feeling than early in the season when we came here and did what we did. All that stuff is in the past. It’s part of the season.”"
Unfortunately for Red Sox fans, that sounds like a manager defeated.