With the Red Sox out on the road on Tuesday, they sent a lot of their depth players out to take on the Pirates in spring training action, along with Nick Pivetta and some other key arms. As it has gone recently for this team in spring training (in which the results, we must emphasize, don’t much matter), things did not go well. The Red Sox dropped to 7-5 in Grapefruit League action with a 6-2 loss on the road against the Pirates. Here are the notes from the day.
Another rough one for Jake Diekman
Earlier today we wrote about recent Red Sox signing Jake Diekman and the home run problems that suddenly began to pop up last year, hoping that it would be a one-year blip.