Alex Bregman shares advice for Red Sox during playoff push

The Pink Sox are headed into the final 13 video games of the common season with extra to play for than they’ve lately.

At 81-68, Boston is holding onto the American League’s second wildcard spot, however has extra work to do earlier than clinching a postseason berth. Due to that, supervisor Alex Cora is preaching his group — and the media — to pump the brakes on all the talk about October earlier than the Pink Sox really make it there.

Heading into the ultimate 13 video games of the yr, Boston newcomer however MLB veteran Alex Bregman shared some phrases of knowledge for the youthful Pink Sox. Bregman has solely missed the playoffs twice in his MLB profession, whereas a lot of his present teammates haven’t seen the postseason but.

“Clearly, you can begin swinging more durable, making an attempt to do extra. You can begin making an attempt to throw more durable and miss over the center of the plate,” Bregman advised reporters when requested what recommendation he’s giving to his teammates. “Simply sluggish it down, execute, generally much less is extra. I really feel like that’s one thing that we have to do some bit higher job of.

The Pink Sox had been probably the greatest groups in baseball through the center of the season, however have been stumbling over the previous few weeks. They’re 4-6 of their final 10 video games and on the verge of getting swept of their weekend collection in opposition to the Yankees if they will’t discover a win at Fenway on Sunday.

Bregman appeared to counsel that Boston is making an attempt too onerous to do the proper issues, moderately than letting the sport come the way in which it had when the Pink Sox dominated the summer season months of the yr.

“During the last two days we’ve been just a little amped up, clearly we’re excited we bought a packed home right here at Fenway,” Bregman mentioned. “I believe generally much less is extra. Simply attempt to simplify.”

As for Bregman, he hit his first residence run since Aug. 12 in Saturday’s 5-3 loss. The star infielder has been in a little bit of a hunch, however is still batting .279 on the season. He’s additionally third on the group in residence runs and fourth in hits, regardless of enjoying solely 103 video games.

Bregman will stay amongst Boston’s most essential items not solely in October, but in addition in ending robust sufficient to play within the postseason.

“I’m simply centered on tomorrow. Attempting to win the baseball sport tomorrow, that’s it,” Bregman mentioned. “There’s quite a lot of baseball left to be performed clearly, and we simply bought to get again to executing.”