That felt like a extremely apathetic loss. The offense simply straight up fell flat with no further base hits. The managerial selections simply didn’t repay—specifically the Abraham Toro pinch hit for Connor Wong with the bases loaded. It’s the workforce’s first set of again to again losses since July 21-22, which is definitely few weeks again. They only acquired dominated by Dylan Stop and the insane Padres bullpen. Not way more to say, time to move to Houston and play good baseball.
Wilyer Abreu (2-f0r-4, 2 Ks)
Romy did techincally drive in the one two Purple Sox runs of the sport however in any other case, not a lot was occurring there. Brayan Bello wasn’t outright horrible, however it was a reasonably bang common recreation. It felt quite a bit like Monday in opposition to the Royals the place he labored himself into troublesome conditions—however right now, he couldn’t work himself out of them.
Ceddanne Rafaela (0-for-4, 2 Ks)
Rafaela’s bat has cooled down tremendously because the All Star break and couldn’t come up when he got here to the dish in some huge conditions right now, together with with the bases loaded. He made a stellar diving catch at shortstop however he must be in middle discipline.
Masataka Yoshida (0-for-3, 1 Ok)
Connor Wong (0-for-2, 1 Ok)
I’m going to lump these two guys collectively. Nothing is clicking for these guys. For Masa, he’s not used usually sufficient to get right into a rhythm—however why would he when there are higher gamers forward of him within the lineup. For Wong, that is the horrible, horrible, no good, very dangerous season. He’s very fortunate he’s Bello’s private catcher, in any other case I’m certain Breslow would have been very aggressive changing him on the deadline.
It goes to Dylan Stop typically, who simply shut down Purple Sox bats for many of the day.
