Following an offseason filled with promise and sky-high expectations, the Red Sox were served some humble pie right out of the gate in the 2025 campaign.
Boston dropped three of four games in its season-opening series in Texas. While Red Sox pitching impressed against the Rangers, the visitors’ bats were nowhere to be found. Alex Cora’s club only scored a combined 11 runs across the four-game set at Globe Life Field.
Alex Bregman was not exempt from Boston’s hitting woes. The marquee offseason addition went a combined 4-for-17 with no extra-base hits, no RBIs and four strikeouts in his first series with the Red Sox. One of those Ks was a game-ender Sunday when Boston had the potential game-tying and go-ahead runs on base in the ninth inning.
However, panic is not creeping in for the ever-confident Bregman.
“I’ve got to be better and come through in those spots and I will be,” Bregman told reporters, per The Boston Globe. “I saw a lot of good things overall from this team in this series.
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“Obviously, not the results that we’re looking for. But I have a lot of confidence that we’re going to turn it around here rather quickly.”
Perhaps the Red Sox will be able to start turning the sides Monday against the Orioles, who played mediocre baseball across their four-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays last week. NESN’s complete coverage of the series opener in Baltimore begins at 1:30 p.m. ET.
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