The Red Sox look to rein in their free-swinging ways tonight behind Nick Pivetta in Toronto, where they face Kevin Gausman as they try to snap a three-game losing streak and awaken the offense (7:07 p.m., NESN, MLBN out-of-network).
At 1-5 over their last 6 games, things are not great right now in Red Sox Nation, and the culprit is the one part of the team everyone thought was fine. The offense is struggling mightily, and even if J.D. Martinez’s absence looms large it hardly explains away the issues. Which are: Swinging at pitches out of the strike zone, as Matt wrote.