With each passing game, a clear and ugly trend continues to emerge and solidify around the Red Sox offense: They can’t execute in meaningful situations!
Tonight against the Nationals, they were at the plate in 17 of the 18 highest leverage situations the game had to offer, and somehow, they managed to score just a single run. Here are the gory details from FanGraphs:
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The Nationals managed more positive WPA (Winning Percentage Added) in their favor on a single twelve hop grounder through the vacated right side of the infield off Tanner Houck than the Red Sox did in any one of their 17 different plate appearance with a leverage index of at least 1.