The Red Sox offense is broken. Is this just who they are? | The Fenway Rundown
A three-run hole felt insurmountable this weekend and that's just the reality of Boston's offense this season.
There was a time when Fenway Park was a place opposing pitchers feared. These days, it might be the most comfortable road trip in the American League. The Boston Red Sox have been historically bad at home this season, and after dropping two of three to the Tampa Bay Rays in a series where they managed just seven total runs, the conversation has officially shifted away from “slump.
” On the latest episode of The Fenway Rundown , MassLive Red Sox reporter Chris Cotillo and Fenway Insider Sean McAdam dissected what went wrong against Tampa Bay — and what it says about this Red Sox roster as a whole. “The longer this goes, the more you start to think this is who they are,” McAdam said, “and this is not the product of a slump or a downturn or a cold spell or whatever euphemism you want to apply, but really a measure of this roster and its obvious and inherent weaknesses. ” Through roughly 19 home games, the Red Sox have put up one of the worst offensive stretches any Red Sox team has ever produced at Fenway.
In the three-game series against Tampa Bay, Boston managed just seven runs. They won one game on the strength of two solo home runs and only four hits. They lost the other two, including a Sunday afternoon contest where a first-inning homer and an error in the third had them staring down a 3-0 hole before they could even blink.
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