The Rangers turned a lead over to the bullpen in the eighth inning. It was only too predictable what happened next.
, almost without explanation. On Monday, he chose to use Smith in the eighth inning of a one-run game against a set of right-handed hitters rather than go to right-hander Chris Stratton.Bochy later said he thought Boston would deploy its array of left-handed hitters had he gone to Stratton and the Rangers liked the left-on-right matchup with Smith.
“We have tried to get things in order to figure it out,” he said. “And that’s been a constant challenge. There is no getting around it.”Advertisement “That pitch got away from him,” Bochy said. “He made a couple of mistakes. We were hoping for a strikeout or ground ball. You have to locate the ball a little better.”
Perhaps all the thinking would not have been necessary had the offense returned, but it apparently was stopped at customs on the way out of Canada last week. Monday marked the fourth straight game in which the Rangers scored three or fewer runs.“We’ve got some guys that just aren’t locked in,” Bochy said. “The at-bats were used to getting, we’re just not getting. We’ve got to get our guys clicking.
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