6 2\/3 innings of work<\/a> on the mound, charged with two earned runs off five hits and two walks. The 25-year-old also tied a season-high mark with 11 strikeouts before walking off the mound and giving way to the bullpen. By that time, Boston remained scoreless as the lineup failed to provide any insurance. <\/p>\nStory continues below advertisement<\/p>\n
The drop-off continues for the Red Sox, and if the team doesn\u2019t figure it out soon, the standings could take a daunting turn for Boston. Before third baseman Alex Bregman went down with a right quad injury, the Red Sox were second in the division and just five games back of the first-place New York Yankees. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
That\u2019s changed and the team isn\u2019t thrilled with the direction they\u2019re currently heading. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t care about promise. We lost,\u201d Red Sox outfielder Rob Refsnyder said, per NESN. \u201cIt\u2019s frustrating. I\u2019m tired of losing. Tired of losing close games. We just need to figure it out and win some games. Bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boston tallied seven hits, but went a costly 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position. The at-bats were far too inconsistent to complete a late-game comeback, although the Red Sox had plenty of chances to make it happen.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere were some good ones. There were some OK ones. There were others that we\u2019ll talk about it,\u201d Cora said. \u201cTrevor (Story) had a chance early in the game, he popped it up, but then he put together three great at-bats. Willy (Abreu) hit the hard ball twice. He hit the single, hit the ball the other way, then hit into a double play. You look around, it\u2019s just up and down, we haven\u2019t been consistent offensively the last three days.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Red Sox dropped to 11-15 in road contests this season with the loss. <\/p>\n
Here are more notes from Monday\u2019s Red Sox-Brewers game:<\/p>\n
\u2014 Crochet is now 4-4 with an elite 2.04 ERA, but the Red Sox have gone just 6-6 when the left-hander takes the mound. Boston has been held to three or fewer runs across Crochet\u2019s last three starts.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m still just trying to do my job to the best of my ability,\u201d Crochet said, per NESN. \u201cAnd then turn in a quality start and help the bullpen out as much as possible. Obviously, runners in scoring position tonight was tough. But I think that we have a lot of faith in our offense that any given moment we\u2019re gonna break out and the rest of the season we\u2019re gonna forget about these first two months.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Since Bregman\u2019s injury last Friday, Boston has gone 2-for-19 with runners in scoring position, hitting .222 with a minus-six run differential, striking out 22 times.<\/p>\n
\u2014 For the 14th time this season, the Red Sox faltered in a one-run contest (6-14), which leads all MLB teams. <\/p>\n
\u2014 Boston is a season-worst seven games out of the American League East at 27-29.<\/p>\n
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\u2014 The Red Sox and Brewers will continue their three-game set on Tuesday night. First pitch from American Family Field is scheduled for 7:40 p.m. ET, and you can catch the game, plus a full hour of pregame coverage, live on NESN. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox are losing patience with themselves. Losers in back-to-back contests, the team aimed to turn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,696,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-57350","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-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-red-sox-notes","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114577232638671230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57350","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=57350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}