Two days before Roman Anthony’s injury put the bleak in oblique, an evaluator contemplated the recent performance of the Red Sox. Though the team had continued to win more games than it lost in the final weeks of August, the Sox had just gone through a 13-game stretch in which they averaged 3.8 runs per game and were held to three or fewer runs in nine of those contests.
“It fees like [the Sox] are a bat short,” the evaluator said.
Now it feels like the team is two short — and will be for some time.
Anthony was rueful in discussing his trip to the injured list for what he believed to be a Grade 2 (moderate) strain of his left oblique.
“It sucks,” Anthony said. “I wish I could play. That’s all I really care about.”
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