Red Sox -snack: Garrett Crochet avoids injuries, but Bullpen spotters again

Boston – an early lead, a late Bullpen Implosion and another loss. Last week the Boston Red Sox played the same game almost repeatedly.

Garrett Crochet didn't have his best stuff on Sunday and had to shake off a creepy moment when he was hit in the face by a Carlos Correa Comed, but the left-hander still gave the Red Sox the chance to win. Instead, the offensive could not add an early lead, and relievers Garrett Whitlock and Justin Slaten had stalled for the third time last week when the Minnesota Twins defeated the Red Sox 5: 4 to win the series. The Red Sox fell to 18-18.

“Hard week for the Bullpen, right?” Manager Alex Cora said. “We had good things. They are good jugs. You just have to make adjustments. As I said before the game, we have to make sure we do. There were many two hits, two strikes, and we just have to be better.”

In Toronto, the Red Sox dropped two consecutive games, with Slaten taking the losses in the games that the team had late leadership. The Red Sox are connected to the Phillies with eight blown parades, the most in the majors.

In the latest Blown Save, Whitlock took 3-1 in sixth place after Crochet had given a run with four goals and two walks over five inner sings while performing six. After a goalless sixth, Whitlock left difficulties in the seventh and gave a head start after Harrison Bader and a one-out single to Christian Vázquez before allowed a two or two runs by Ryan Jeffers. Jeffers had entered the AT-BAT with two out and runners in the goal position.

Cora turned to slats and allowed Correa of ​​a leadoff single, recorded two outs and then allowed a Bader double to achieve the start. Trevor Larnach added another RBI single and made it 5-3.

“There are three games in a row, where I again, as I said in Toronto, I felt like I had really good things,” said Slaten. “I precede people and get the swing and the Miss, but it does not happen in the two-deep counts, and that is what is most important, and that is the most frustrating part that I have the feeling that I get into the foot when I come to these positions and do not carry out.”

However, this week there was a Bullpen lighting. For the second time in three days, Liam Hendriks threw a goalless inn and needed eight parking spaces, five strikes to withdraw the team in ninth place. Unfortunately, the damage was already done because the Red Sox could not pull closer than 5-4 against the Twins Bullpen.

Red Sox criminal offense silently in later innings

A fighting bullpen was not just Boston's only problem in this latest film, in which the team lost four of his last five and seven of his last 11 games. An inconsistent crime has also played an important role. The Red Sox showed the ability to break offensive, but were much too streaked and embedded their runs early in games.

In 36 games, the Red Sox scored 89 runs in the first four inner races, while only 75 in the Innings four to eight. After gaining early leads, they couldn't add it to the Bullpen, as was the case on Sunday, during the entire game.

In the second 1-0, Wilyer Abreu reached a single that he fell into the left field in front of Larnach. Romy Gonzalez exposed himself, and then David Hamilton met a victim to bring the runners into a goal position. Carlos Narváez jumped off a single over the third Baseman and scored two runs for the 2-1 lead. The rally was the product of excellent situational hits. The Red Sox redeemed another goal in the third when Gonzalez added a victim fly to achieve it 3-1.

But then the offensive stayed again, apart from an abrupt Solo Homer in eighth place.

In the seventh, shortly after the twins tied it, Ceddanne Rafaela, Jarren Duran and Rafael Devers went to seven parking spaces, and the twins took over the leadership of slats at eighth place.

Cora had no great explanation for the inconsistency of his team's crime.

“(Minnesotas) Bullpen is really good and after the fifth inning you could bring in your boys,” said Cora. “We hit a few balls hard. Ceddanne hit some ground balls hard. But we didn't put them under pressure.

“Just continue working, that's the most important thing,” he added. “In the end, Wily made a good momentum. Hammy hit the ball hard. I had to continue working and things will change.”

However, the lack of consistent criminal offens have become a worrying trend more than a month of the season.

Cora shakes the order

Cora tried to change the line -up on Sunday and bring Kristian Campbell to the clean -up location.

Campbell, who won the rookie of the American League rookie of the month for April, missed the last three games with the right RIB incaration. Campbell accepted the day and scored with an OPS of 0.902 in 29 games together with 11 multi-hit games, but went 0: 4 that day.

With Trevor Story, who is fighting on the plate and Triston Casas for the year, Cora indicated that Campbell could stay in the four -hole.

“Just tried something else,” he said before the game. “I think all of these bats will help. I will not say that this is the way we will go, but we will probably.”

Casas started the year as a cleaning racket and scored 12 games at this point before Cora turned into Story (nine games) and Abreu (11 games). Rob Refsnyder hit cleaning three times.

The story was free for a day and was on the plate in a punched distance and went 6-against-46 with three walks and 16 rashes in his last 11 games.

“Missing Fastballs,” said Cora about history. “We saw it (Saturday) throughout the game and got fast balls that he can beat, and they merged (and), then expand.”

In the meantime, Abreu had to fight after a white first week of the season on Sunday. From April 2, he had only hit 0.219 with an OPS of 0.716 last month, but set up a 3- against 4-day Sunday with two singles and a Homer on Sunday.

The Red Sox had many strong individual performances on the plate, but far too few days when they clicked together and added throughout the game. It cost her again.

Crochet ok after being hit by fought ball

Before Correas Comebacker had a bad start to the Crochet's Day hill. The left allowed byon Buxton to bring a solo homer on the first field to bring the team into an early hole.

The Red Sox gave him the 3-1 lead, but his command was eliminated and his speed was reduced, and his four-soul chamber with an average of only 95.7 miles per hour.

Garrett Crochet takes one out of his nose and stays in the game.

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Then he avoided a serious injury in fourth place when a 93.7 miles per hour looked from Correa from his nose. Cora and trainers came into the hill to ensure that Crochet's nose was not broken before taking a few warm -up fabrics and staying in the game.

“To be honest, I hardly touched me to be shaken only with the initial impact than anything else,” he said. “I immediately touched my nose to see if it felt normal. It was initially deaf, only because of the initial effects, but it was fine.”

Crochet threw another inning and left 89 parking spaces, 54 strikes and 14 swings and misses. Usually he uses his four-person soul in about 45 percent of the time per start, but only threw him from 18 percent with a clip on Sunday and realized that the twins were sitting on it. Instead, he turned to his cutter and sinker.

“Velo is below, somehow saw what (the twins) tried to do in the first inning and got it early on the four-seaer,” he said. “Some teams profil the sinks well.

In spring training, Crochet regularly rose at 100 miles per hour, but has not yet reached the season. Although it was not a concern in view of the weather in the early season, it was noticeable and a little crochet agreed that he tried to find out.

When asked what felt different since spring training, Crochet opened a little.

“Just as I work down the slope, I have the feeling that there are times when I only let my body weight bring the slope down instead of driving down the mountain,” he said. “It is like seeing these things during the start, but I will not try to correct something during a start in the field. As soon as I am on the hill, I do what I can do with what I have that day.”

The 25-year-old still has an ERA of 2.02 ERA through eight starts, but clearly has the feeling that he has not done his best yet.

Increasing injuries: Buhler's disease minor, Fitts Nearing Return, Casas has operated

Starter Walker Buehler landed on the injured list of the right shoulder burstatis on Friday, but he was relieved that the injury was not more serious. Buehler said he had an anti -inflammatory shot on Friday and expected to throw again on Monday or Tuesday.

“I am a guy who went through many things, and the fact that it was only a Bursitis and I had to go to the IL is in a way embarrassing for me,” he said. “But I think there are certain things that you have to remove during the week to play a game with Major-League. And I couldn't do these things. So, all in all, I think it's the right thing. Hopefully I miss two or maybe a third start, but it should be a minimum.”

Buehler began to feel a few shoulder problems in Tampa two weeks ago and tried to assert himself, but since he had a tear in his shoulder a few years ago, he wanted to make sure that it was nothing serious.

“The results of my MRI and the kind of quality of my shoulder are still very good,” he said. “I was only concerned that it was a little more than it was. And luckily it was not so nicely cut and dry, get the injection, clean and go back.”

In the meantime, the starter Richard Fitts, who has been traveling with a breast load since April 13, is closer to a return. Fitters are planned for a Bullpen Monday, and Cora was satisfied with how aggressive he was when he tried to quickly return to the hill after what the team originally feared would be a much worse injury.

“The progress was excellent,” said Cora. “He feels really good, so let's see how it works (Monday).”

“He also did a good job to attack the rehab,” added Cora. “He is very hardworking. I saw it in the low season. He was here and did a good job with the coaches and did the same with his rehab.”

Two days after the race of his left Patella tendon, which ran to the first basis, Casas was operated on to repair the tendon on Sunday in the Massachusetts General Hospital. It is expected to miss the rest of the season.

(Garrett Crochet Tophoto after being hit by Carlos Correas Comebacker: Winslow Townson / Getty Images)