The Boston Red Sox saw their season come to an end during Monday’s sickening loss to the Colorado Rockies.
If we’re all being honest with each other, there were already nails being hammered into the coffin — the utter shit show that was the final two innings of that game just happened to be the final one.
The Red Sox collectively puked on themselves, shit down their legs, and pulled out a gun to shoot themselves in the foot, eventually leading to a 3-2 walk-off loss at Coors Field. Willson Contreras,
Masataka Yoshida, and Marcelo Mayer put together useless at-bats while clinging onto a two-run lead. Garrett Whitlock and Aroldis Chapman, both of whom barely pitch anymore, couldn’t get anyone out. Jarren Duran completely butchered the final play of the game, leading to the game-winning run.
It’s about as bad as it sounds, yet was somehow wholly unsurprising.
Boston has been facing an uphill battle for months, with a collection of deep-rooted issues all hindering the performance of the baseball team — the hitting program clearly sucks, identifying quality pitchers has been anything but a consistent endeavor, there was and still continues to be an odd power struggle happening between ownership, the front office, and the coaching staff, etc. I just don’t think people were quite ready to admit that things are as bad as they are… until now.
It’s not like losing to a bad team is enough to declare the season dead, it’s doing it in the fashion they did it. You can’t just start finding new ways to lose at this point! It’s supposed to be formulaic— you fall behind by a couple of runs and the offense isn’t good enough to climb out of a hole. Chapman can’t blow saves! Duran can’t revert back to being a butcher! Yoshida can’t be uncompetitive with a chance to add insurance!
Yet, that’s what happened. The Red Sox officially hit rock bottom, squandering an opportunity to kick off the most important week of their season with an impressive and/or formulaic victory over an inferior opponent.
If they can’t show fight against this team and under these circumstances, they never will.
It’s over folks.
The Red Sox are dead, so enjoy the time off before they get interesting again — which is either when they do something wildly dramatic or after the lockout.
It might be a while…
