{"id":680832,"date":"2026-04-22T06:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680832\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:25:19","slug":"sputtering-red-sox-offense-reaches-new-low-vs-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680832\/","title":{"rendered":"Sputtering Red Sox Offense Reaches New Low Vs. Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\/news\/red-sox-show-impressive-resiliency-vs-tigers-after-all-star-pitcher-goes-down\/6d8ae73c41027010bce2526f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surprisingly erupting<\/a> for eight runs on\u00a012 hits against the Detroit Tigers on Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> immediately crashed back to earth on Tuesday, losing\u00a04-0 to the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox couldn&#8217;t get anything going against Luis Gil and the Yankees&#8217; bullpen, mustering just four hits and three walks in their second shutout loss of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It was another poor performance by Boston&#8217;s offense, which has scored two runs or less in four of its last five games, <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\/news\/slumbering-red-sox-bats-erupt-vs-tigers-best-fenway-performance-2026\/0f3c5dec312cfaaa2fba665e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all at Fenway Park<\/a>. Tuesday&#8217;s game was the first time New York held the Red Sox scoreless at Fenway <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tylermilliken_\/status\/2046763952047006031\" rel=\"nofollow\">since Sept. 19, 2020<\/a>, towards the end of Boston&#8217;s disastrous Covid season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Red Sox have scored 2 or fewer runs in 4 of their last 5 games. 5 of their last 7. Currently ranked 24th in runs. 28th in OPS. Still tied for last in homers with 13.<\/p>\n<p>Fried and Schlitter coming up next.<\/p>\n<p>9\/19\/20 was the last time the Yankees shutout the Red Sox at Fenway. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lkUMfSI8SD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lkUMfSI8SD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tyler Milliken (@tylermilliken_) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylermilliken_\/status\/2046763952047006031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s performance was a microcosm of the Red Sox&#8217;s offensive woes this season. They <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\/news\/advanced-stats-reveal-major-reason-red-soxs-poor-offensive-start\/d88e112b212f68c4f4537b60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chased too many pitches<\/a> outside the strike zone, <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\/news\/slumping-red-sox-shockingly-plummet-last-place-key-offensive-category\/55f130432e31fff3b683c0e7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">didn&#8217;t make hard contact<\/a>, hit the ball into the ground and fell short with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\/news\/athletic-reveals-surprising-reason-red-soxs-early-struggles\/e5f23e929a0bfa639514401f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tough year at the plate<\/a> for Boston, which\u00a0ranks 24th in runs, 28th in OPS and tied for last in home runs, which explains the team&#8217;s 9-14 record.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the Red Sox, they have two more tough matchups in this series against Max Fried and Cam Schlittler, so getting back on track against the Yankees won&#8217;t be easy.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\/news\/connelly-early-scuffles-late-against-yankees\/a77978f81bb42fd16ea1f1df\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connelly Early Scuffles Late Against Yankees<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After surprisingly erupting for eight runs on\u00a012 hits against the Detroit Tigers on Monday, the Boston Red Sox&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-680832","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-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116446939832462055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680832","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=680832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}