Red Sox continue to lose by 1, and/or lose in extra innings. Scheim can't figure out what's up with this team. Is the bullpen and/or Cora's usage of the bullpen an issue?
00:00Hey Greg, good morning. This Red Sox team, man, I just, I don't really get it. This, that, courtesy of Gordo, who's one of the hosts on the Play Tessie pod, Sox have been walked off now in four of their last five, six of their last 11 road games. They got walked off five times all of last season. That's insane. It's, we're not even at the halfway point in the season and you can't seem to figure it out.
00:26And the crazier thing is that Aroldis Chapman, the guy who would be closing games is pitching awesome. So I just, I don't understand how you're finding yourself in these situations where Chapman comes in, gives you a shutdown inning and a tight game. And then he's done. Yeah. And then, and then you got to pull him. Well, he has the, the, the gas to, to, to go for another inning. But like even the fact that you can, then he comes out, you get a lead and you
00:56can't just simply hold the lead for a half an inning is insane to me. And that, I think that's one of the biggest problems here. And it's, so it's, a lot of it is on the strength of the bullpen. And a lot of it is on Alex Cora's management of the bullpen. And I, I just, I don't understand how they have found themselves losing in so many close games like this.
01:20If it's not just the, the manager is terrible at managing late game situations. It's like the only explanation I can have at this point, other than I guess, blaming the fact that the, the, the bullpen hasn't been great, but at moments the bullpen is great. And so I just, I don't understand where the disconnect is.
01:38Also, a lot of it is on the errors and the, and I get it. Like it's, the argument is going to be, it's a young team and you got guys like Christian Campbell who are obviously gonna, you know, gonna make a mental error here or there.
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