Give the Detroit Tigers credit, but the Red Sox’s losses this season can be attributed as much to their opponent on the field as it can be their opponent off it.
The team’s roster has been ravaged by sickness, primarily a strain a flu, during the opening week of the 2017 season. Even play-by-play broadcast Dave O’Brien had to leave mid-game Saturday due to flu-like symptoms. In fact, the entire state of Massachusetts has seen a recent uptick in flu cases.
“This hasn’t been able to be contained from one certain group to another or a couple of guys,” manager John Farrell recently told the Providence Journal.