Where are the Red Soxs blamed for the loss of match 2? Start by forgetting how to play baseball
NEW YORK – Everything was very exciting, this company from the Boston Red Sox manager, Alex Cora, pulling levers and pressing buttons from the joker series of his team against New York Yankees on Wednesday evening.
Each of the movements of his crazy people aimed to get nine sleeves of perfect matches, and perhaps, an ideal result: a two-game scan at the Yankee Stadium and a trip to Toronto for match 1 of the division series.
However, one of the reasons why the Red Sox was 4-3 losers to the Yankees is that Cora cannot draw a lever which will guarantee that its players – like, Oh, Ceddanne Rafaela – offer a sacrifice in a key situation. Cora cannot press a button that will help its field players – such as, Oh, Jarren Duran – to get better reading and follow a better route to a line player with two withdrawals and the attachment race in second position.
For these two reasons, and a few others, it made no difference that Cora drew the starter Brayan Bello after only 2 1/3 innings, or that he ended up using Seven pitchers. Because if there is one thing that haunts the Red Sox all season, and let’s be frank here, it was an irritating habit to forget how to play baseball.
Given the way they gathered in September and claimed a joker berth, there was an optimism that the Red Sox had found their happy place in terms of cleaner and smoother baseball game. Yes, many errors have been made – six of them by the Trevor Story stop stop in September only – but the errors are different from the blunders. And when the blunders occur, it is not unfair to ask where the players’ heads are.
And since we play the equitable game in our discussion on match 2: to be fair towards Duran, his inability to tighten a lining with two withdrawals by the judge of Aaron in the fifth round, allowing Trent Grisham to score from the second, was not considered an error. It would not have been an “easy” socket either. However, it was absolutely a catch that should have been made, whether in April or October, and the fraction of Duran of the second of indecision on how to approach the ball made the difference.
As for Rafaela, he came to beat in the seventh round, with two on, nobody, the score was equally 3-3. He tried twice to advance the runners, dropping a blow. Crossing the plate for an offering of Fernando Cruz which was outside the striking area, he dropped a small harmless pop fly which was easily perched by the relief of the Yankees.
In this same round, Masataka Yoshida chose a group of the second Jazz Chisholm Jr. base player, who obtained a glove on the ball and made a valiant launch in Ben Rice of the bag. Nate Eaton, could the runner in second position have scored on the game? Social media says yes, he could absolutely have. Sorry, this one is questionable, and it does not go in the pot with the cheek Rafaela and Duran. Discuss between you.
The jazz diving stop Chisholm Jr.#Post-season pic.twitter.com/2ovtlld8kw
– MLB (@MLB) October 2, 2025
As for Cora, the skipper did not have much to say about the attempted stroke of Rafaela, except to deliver a little starkering on this subject as a great secret to know if he called to this or if Rafaela did by himself.
“We will keep this one as a decision for the team,” said the director. “I don’t want to give them my hand.”
No one was interested in who ordered the red code, only in the way it was tempted. And Rafaela had no comments, leaving the clubhouse not to mention the media.
THE #Redsox are 5-0 in series of dropout games under Alex Cora 👀
“There is no tomorrow. Win today, so we will see where we are the next day.” 🔥 pic.twitter.com/cdpxxiaz9h
– nesn (@nesn) October 1, 2025
Meanwhile, Duran had a lot to say.
“When I came, I thought it was a little stronger than it was … And as I entered, I didn’t have to dive there,” he said. “I just pushed the ball and myself a little. It’s on me. This one will prick a little. I know that the game is 100% on me if I play this game.
“I spoiled it, I gave them momentum. Things happened from there. This is on me. I will have to wear this one. “
The Red Sox now enter match 3 with a starting launcher, Lefty Connelly Early, who has only made four departures in the major league. However, this is not the main reason why the Red Sox is in a match of the end of his season in the first round.
Given all the pitch changes that Cora made in match 2, he could have a tired enclosure in the late heats of match 3. However, this is not the main reason why the Red Sox are in a match of the end of his season in the first round.
No, what faces the Red Sox, once again, it is the same thing that sometimes made them difficult to watch earlier in the season. It was different then, because, well, it was April … May … June. There was always time to do things correctly, to find this happy place.
However, here we are, in October, and everyone is back to school. And the Red Sox must learn to resume baseball.
(Photo by Jarreen Duran: Al Bello / Getty Images)
