{"id":26330,"date":"2025-05-14T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/26330\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:32:10","slug":"red-sox-reliever-pissed-about-terrible-mistake-against-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/26330\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Reliever &#8216;Pissed&#8217; About &#8216;Terrible&#8217; Mistake Against Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Weissert gave up <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/05\/red-sox-notes-javier-baezs-identical-swings-doom-boston-in-series-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a walk-off home run to Javy B\u00e1ez<\/a> on Tuesday night, but he wasn\u2019t the only Red Sox reliever who surrendered a three-run blast to the two-time All-Star at Comerica Park.<\/p>\n<p>With Boston clinging to a one-run lead over Detroit in the sixth inning, Alex Cora called on Garrett Whitlock to replace starter Brayan Bello. After striking out two and allowing a pair to reach, Whitlock went toe-to-toe with B\u00e1ez, the Tigers\u2019 No. 9 hitter.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to lean on his fastball, the veteran right-hander tried to sneak a slider past the 12th-year pro. Whitlock found no such luck, as B\u00e1ez launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/1922452360783188315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">go-ahead, 392-foot home run<\/a> to the left field bleachers. El Mago\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/1922477022732787855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">second dinger of the game<\/a> wasn\u2019t as long, but it had more than enough distance to hand Boston a devastating loss in the 11th inning.<\/p>\n<p>Whitlock, who allowed multiple runs in three of his last five outings, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/05\/red-sox-most-crushing-loss-of-season-comes-after-bullpen-fails-3-times-to-put-the-button-on-things.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">very hard on himself<\/a> after not keeping Detroit off the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t throw fastballs for strikes so I\u2019m pretty pissed at myself for that,\u201d Whitlock told reporters, per MassLive. \u201cPut two guys on because of it, then Javy being smart probably was sitting for a slider because I couldn\u2019t throw a fastball for a strike. He didn\u2019t miss it. That was terrible by me and I\u2019ve got to be better than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels awful. It was just really bad today. Got brought in to do a job and didn\u2019t do it. They basically could eliminate a pitch today because I didn\u2019t have it. When that\u2019s one of my main strengths and I don\u2019t have it, it\u2019s easy to hit me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s contest told a familiar story for the Red Sox, who suffered their 11th one-run loss of the season. Boston will try to avoid a sweep in Motown on Wednesday when the clubs meet for the series finale, which will have full coverage on NESN beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Weissert gave up a walk-off home run to Javy B\u00e1ez on Tuesday night, but he wasn\u2019t the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4506,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-26330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-garrett-whitlock","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114506441947027415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}