for most of the first half of the season, the team pretty regurary hit the stuffing out of the ball.... This resulted in many lopsided games in the Red Sox favor.... However it seems like our "powerful offense" was hiding a big weakness that if it was not exposed during the regular season, would have surely been exposed in the post season. The past 2 weeks seems to have brought this weakness to the forefront
Jason Mastrodonato @JMastrodonato 14m14 minutes ago
In 10 of last 11, have scored 3 or less or 8 or more, how about that.
Alex Speier @alexspeier 7m7 minutes ago
The Sox' offense has been the best in baseball...but in late&close situations, they have a .699 OPS, 10th in AL.
Alex Speier @alexspeier 6m6 minutes ago
Hence, Sox are just 3-36 trailing after 7, 2-38 trailing after 8. They're not beating other teams' bullpens.
Some stats from B-ref
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=b&team=BOS&year=2016
As Alex stated, it seems like the sox are unable to consistently produce results in late and close games, be it against a starting pitcher or a teams RP.... (see 7th, 8th and 9th inning stats)
Jason Mastrodonato @JMastrodonato 14m14 minutes ago
In 10 of last 11, have scored 3 or less or 8 or more, how about that.
Alex Speier @alexspeier 7m7 minutes ago
The Sox' offense has been the best in baseball...but in late&close situations, they have a .699 OPS, 10th in AL.
Alex Speier @alexspeier 6m6 minutes ago
Hence, Sox are just 3-36 trailing after 7, 2-38 trailing after 8. They're not beating other teams' bullpens.
Some stats from B-ref
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=b&team=BOS&year=2016
As Alex stated, it seems like the sox are unable to consistently produce results in late and close games, be it against a starting pitcher or a teams RP.... (see 7th, 8th and 9th inning stats)