Red Sox reactions: Sean Newcomb hit around on sloppy, sleepy

BOSTON– Instantaneous responses to a poor Red Sox (14-12) performance, an 8-5 loss to the Mariners that was, in truth, a lot more uneven than the score suggested:1) Perhaps the worst night of the year for Boston’s pitching personnel, which enabled 13 hits, walked five batters, dedicated 2 mistakes and quit constant hits when it mattered as Seattle was 6-for-14 when runners in scoring position. Boston was lucky to just give up 8 runs in a game that was mainly a blowout. The Mariners left 10 on base.2) Sean Newcomb has actually been a nice story early in the season and the Red Sox have largely treaded water behind him. However the amount of difficult contact versus him has simply not been major league quality. His weird outing Wednesday consisted of eight Mariners hits, which means he has enabled 32 hits in 22 1/3 innings so far.With Lucas Giolito due back next week, that might be it for Newcomb in the rotation. Boston has gone 2-3 in his starts. A choice will need to be made whether to move on or carry him as a long relief option. 3)Newcomb did start out 8

batters, marking his greatest total since 2018. However he simply played with fire too many times. After getting a double play and strikeout to leave a bases filled, no-out jam in the 2nd (and enabling simply one run in spite of traffic in the very first three innings), he struck the wall in the 4th when, after back-to-back singles to lead off the inning, he allowed a three-run homer to J.P. Crawford that broadened the Mariners cause 4-0.4) Triston Casas’ bat is revealing some life, a minimum of. He hit his second three-run homer in as many nights in the 8th to cut a six-run deficit in half. He has more RBIs (6) in the last two days than he did in his first 21 games (4 ).5) With the deficit to two runs, Brennan Bernardino gifted Seattle a run with the unusual double-error play in the 6th. With two outs and a male on first, he attempted– unsuccessfully– to field a two-foot chopper by Dylan Moore. He then threw the ball away, enabling a go to cross the plate. Bernardino was charged with a fielding mistake and a throwing error on a play that extended the inning and led to another Mariners operate on Julio Rodríguez’s RBI single.6) Josh Winckowski went beyond expectations to the tune of a 3.12 AGE (and 3.26 FIP) in his first 5 getaways of the year. However his 43-pitch seventh inning– which included four songs, a walk and a steal– was not ideal, to say the least. He put the bullpen in a better area for Thursday’s series ending by pitching through the ninth, though, and struck out the side in order in the eighth. He tossed 80 pitches and may be replaced on the active roster as an outcome.7) Alex Cora wants to discover methods to get Romy Gonzalez into the lineup and it was clear why in the fourth, when the utility male made sure back-to-back two-out walks didn’t go to waste. He lined an Emerson Hancock pitch the other way to plate Boston’s very first run of the night.8) Hancock’s 12.71 age was a bit deceiving. In a stacked group of Mariners pitchers, it’s easy to forget about the 25-year-old, who was the sixth total choice in the 2020 draft. But the upside is still there and he revealed a few of it at Fenway.9) Over the course of a season, ball-strike calls level. However Rafael Devers had a case to be miffed when Lance Barrett rang him up on a Hancock fastball that was well inside to end the 3rd. Ditto Trevor Story on a Casey Legumina sweeper in the 8th, though the game had actually largely been decided already.10) The Red Sox will have their ace on the mound in Thursday’s rubber game with Garrett Crochet (2-1, 1.13 AGE) pitching. Righty Bryan Woo (2-1, 3.12 ERA) will pitch for Seattle. First pitch is at 1:35 p.m. ET.Boston will then hit the roadway once again after the game for a six-game, seven-day trip to Cleveland and Toronto.