Meanwhile, here’s the bigger picture: the Red Sox this season are now 9-10 when someone other than Sale is their starting pitcher and 0-5 in games started by their ace. Neither number is especially praiseworthy given what the Sox should be, but that 0-5 right now is the No. 1 reason they continue to stumble along as if blindfolded.
Michael Chavis homered and Darwinzon Hernandez held the TIgers scoreless in his major league debut, but the Red Sox stranded 12 men in the losing effort.
With this new launch angle approach, hunting fastballs, let's hit home runs, culture that's hit Major League Baseball, pitchers don't throw fastballs anymore, and that's bugging Tony.
So just admit it: you fell in Eovaldi with him last October after what should have been a one-night stand. We all did. And then you committed to something that you really shouldn’t have committed to, a baseball version of “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.”
Mazz believes in fast starts and strong finishes. The proof is in the performance of recent world champions. And that's why the Red Sox need to start digging themselves out of their early hole now.
