The Red Sox try to stay above water this afternoon in Houston as Martín Pérez looks to save our heroes from a four-game sweep (2:10 p.m., NESN).
Xander Bogaerts, currently mired in an 0-21 slump, says this is just the type of thing that happens to all teams, good or bad. Okay! But getting swept in four games is not what you want, and Alex Cora seems to think he knows why the Sox are struggling, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com:
“For how good Valdez was, we got pull-happy when we had pitches in certain counts,” Cora said.