The mood sure turned quickly after that sweep of the Yankees, right? No one said the final six weeks of the season would be easy, given that the Red Sox have the highest strength of schedule in all of baseball and face an uphill battle to blow the four-game deficit for a Wild Card spot. Bbut Monday night’s contest against the Astros was marred by quite poor pitching by James Paxton, two defensive errors (one by Rafael Devers, who’s been racking them up lately), and eleven base runners stranded. Even against a struggling Christian Javier, the only batter to leave the park was Adam Duvall, and the missed opportunities, quantified by going 3-for-18 with runners in scoring position, spoke volumes about the state of the team for the remainder of the Astros series.
Red Sox 3, Astros 7: Hello Errors, My Old Friend
