BOSTON — Crimson Sox supervisor Alex Cora has been proclaiming not too long ago that he did not assume his workforce was removed from placing good baseball collectively following a dismal stretch of video games.
These days of optimism look like dwindling after Boston’s newest setback.
The Crimson Sox misplaced their seventeenth one-run recreation of the season on Tuesday, this time falling 4-3 to the Los Angeles Angels in 10 innings stuffed with missed alternatives, poor execution defensively and one other inconsistent evening from the bullpen. It was their eighth loss in 10 video games. They’re now 9-10-1 in collection play, together with 4-5-1 at Fenway Park.
“We maintain making the identical errors. We’re not getting higher,” Cora mentioned after the sport. “At one level it must be on me I assume. I am the supervisor. I’ve received to maintain pushing them to be higher. They are not getting higher. They are not. We maintain making the identical errors. I will be sincere about it and really open about it.”
Tuesday’s loss got here an evening after Boston additionally misplaced by a run to an Angels workforce that had misplaced seven of eight and three consecutive collection.
The sport began out with some promise.
Beginning pitcher Brayan Bello pitched a scoreless first to snap a four-game streak of Boston pitchers permitting no less than one run within the opening inning.
However then the Angels took a 3-0 lead within the third inning through an RBI single by Zach Neto and a two-run single by Nolan Schanuel.
Boston received one run again throughout its half of the inning however failed to shut the hole extra regardless of having runners on second and third base with no outs.
The Crimson Sox outhit the Angels for the second straight recreation. But additionally additionally dedicated three fielding errors.
“You get pissed off, however at one level, OK, what are you going to do? What is going on to vary? We maintain doing the identical factor,” Cora mentioned.
