Blue Jays - 011 003 010 - 6 10 1 Red Sox - 000 000 001 - 1 7 0I did not watch. I am not recapping.
Manager Alex Cora:
[W]e still have to get better ...AL East: Astros 9, MFY 4; Rays 8, Athletics 2. ... MFY –, TBR 4.5, BOS 8.0.
[T]here's a lot of things we need to keep improving on ...
We expect better things ...
[W]e've been inconsistent and we need to be a lot better. ...
[We are] far from being where we're supposed to be.
Betts, RF
Benintendi, LF
Bogaerts, SS
Martinez, DH
Holt, 3B
Vázquez, C
Bradley, CF
Chavis, 1B
Hernández, 2B
Xander Bogaerts has doubled in seven consecutive games, tied for the longest such streak in AL history. The modern MLB record for consecutive games with a double is 8 (Yadier Molina in 2016 and Derrek Lee in 2007). Bogaerts leads the AL with 26 doubles.
The Red Sox have hit at least one double in all 21 games in June, MLB's longest active streak. The longest streak of 2019 belongs to the Orioles (25 games, April 2-28). ... Which shows definitively that hitting doubles in consecutive games has nothing to do with winning games. Therefore, I expect OB to mention this Red Sox factoid this afternoon with tremendous awe in his voice.
AL East: MFY –, TBR 5.5, BOS 8.0. ... Astros/MFY, 2 PM; Rays/Athletics, 4 PM.
I think Sox's home record has been a problem since the "chicken and beer" season. The ever consuming negativity of the Sox fans and amplified beyond imagination by the pathetic sports talk-radio seeps into the team. Even last year they had some pathetic losses at home . We will look back at 2018 as the greatest season ever for any team. We could see it if we had a OPS+ type metric correcting for pathetic sport-talk radio poisoning the atmosphere for hometown fans. If not for them, the Sox would have won 8 or 10 more games last year.
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