Some things in baseball are just taken for granted. The seventh inning stretch. Losing teams being the victim of bizarre, fluctuating strike zones. Harold Reynolds saying something unintelligent, if not unintelligible. And that the bottom of the league team probably needs better pitching.
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So obvious is the last one that you’d wonder how the Boston Red Sox transitioned from 2014 to 2015 with five questionable pitchers, five “he’s the ace” t-shirts and every expectation of a different ending than the year before. So bad was Boston’s rotation in 2015 that it gave a whole new dimension to that Sandy Koufax quote about pitching being the art of instilling fear.