Red Sox left 11 runners on base<\/a> and went 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position, which, without watching the game, tells the whole story. Boston had its chances, and Boston squandered its chances, allowing LA to go back-to-back ahead of the series finale.<\/p>\nCora took a long look in the mirror when struggling to explain the mess left on the field by the Red Sox for fans to endure. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe keep making the same mistakes. We\u2019re not getting better,\u201d Cora told reporters following Tuesday night\u2019s 4-3 loss in extra innings, per NESN. \u201cAt one point, it has to be on me, I guess, right? I\u2019m the manager, so I gotta keep pushing them to be better. They\u2019re not getting better. They\u2019re not, you know. We keep making the same mistakes, same mistakes. I\u2019ll be very honest about it, very open about it, you know, you get frustrated. But at what point is it like, \u2018OK, what\u2019re you gonna do? What\u2019s gonna change?\u2019 Because we keep doing the same thing, same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s coming down to the fundamentals for the Red Sox \u2014 fielding routine plays, situational hitting and base-running. We\u2019ve now arrived at June, and the same mistakes that were made in March\/April continue to haunt Boston in games filled with chances to capitalize. The Angels didn\u2019t run circles around the Red Sox; they just cashed in at the right time, and those opportunities were up for grabs for both teams.<\/p>\n
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Brayan Bello went six innings while allowing three earned runs \u2014 all in the third inning \u2014 off seven hits, striking out three. It was an outing good enough to keep the Red Sox in the ballgame and within reach of evening up the series to set up a rubber match for Wednesday afternoon\u2019s finale. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Even in the bottom of the ninth, Boston had a Willy Wonka Golden Ticket opportunity when Angels closer Kenley Jansen walked Kristian Campbell, the lead-off man. Cora pinch ran David Hamilton, who stole second, but when Jarren Duran flew out to deep center field, Hamilton didn\u2019t tag up and race to third base. <\/p>\n
Boston stranded Hamilton \u2014 who later stole third \u2014 in scoring position as Wilyer Abreu (strikeout) and Romy Gonz\u00e1lez (ground out) both failed to seal the deal. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have no idea now,\u201d Cora said. \u201cI watched that game, I was like, \u2018Wow, this is real.\u2019 It\u2019s frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Red Sox will look to avoid being swept for the second time in their last three series before hitting the road for a weekend series against the New York Yankees. <\/p>\n
Here are more notes from Tuesday night\u2019s Red Sox-Angels game:<\/p>\n
\u2014 Boston, now 29-34 this season, leads all big league teams in one-run (17) and extra-inning (seven) losses. The club, still fourth in the American League East, sits just 4 1\/2 games ahead of the last-place Baltimore Orioles. <\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, obviously it\u2019s very difficult, but I feel we need to make an adjustment,\u201d Bello told reporters through\u00a0team translator Carlos Villoria-Benitez, per NESN. <\/p>\n
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Bello added: \u201cWin (is the adjustment).\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Red Sox outfielder Ceddanne Rafaela went 3-for-5 with a home run, a double and two RBIs to extend his hitting streak to seven games. The 24-year-old is hitting .448 with three home runs, two doubles and five RBIs amid the hot stretch. <\/p>\n
\u2014 The Red Sox committed three errors on Tuesday night, raising their season total to 53 and putting themselves ahead of the 11-50 Colorado Rockies for baseball\u2019s lead as the worst defensive team in 2025.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Boston has gone 3-8 since starting third baseman Alex Bregman suffered his strained right quad injury on May 23.<\/p>\n
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\u2014 The Red Sox and Angels will wrap up their three-game series on Wednesday afternoon. First pitch from Fenway Park is scheduled for 1:35 p.m. ET, and you can watch the game, plus a full hour of pregame coverage, live on NESN. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora is losing patience with the ongoing trend of underperformance that\u2019s dragged the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[858,291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,696],"class_list":{"0":"post-78209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-alex-cora","9":"tag-angels","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-angels","13":"tag-laangels","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-angels","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesangels","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-red-sox-notes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78209","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=78209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}