Slumping Red Sox On Concerning Pace At Season’s Midway Point

The Boston Red Sox are officially halfway through their 2025 schedule, and it’s safe to say they’re not where they hoped to be.

The fourth-place Red Sox suffered their fourth straight loss on Tuesday, falling 3-2 to the Los Angeles Angels in extra innings despite getting another gem from Garrett Crochet. The loss dropped them one game below .500 to 40-41, six games behind the first-place New York Yankees.

Despite trading for Crochet and signing Alex Bregman and Walker Buehler over the offseason, Boston has a worse record than it did at the same time last year. Through 81 games in 2024, the Red Sox were five games over .500 at 43-38.

Boston ultimately finished 81-81, missing the playoffs for the third straight season. If the Red Sox don’t turn things around in the second half, that drought will continue.

The Red Sox have reached the latest marker in their season and are 40-41 at the halfway point. On pace to finish with one fewer win than last year.

— Ian Browne (@IanMBrowne) June 25, 2025

While Boston’s first half had its ups and downs, the team made too many mistakes on the bases and in the field. The Red Sox have lost an agonizing number of close games as a result, going 9-19 in one-run games and 5-9 in extra-innings games.

Growing pains are to be expected with such a young team, but Boston must do a better job of executing the fundamentals. The Red Sox lead the Major Leagues with 69 errors, two more than the historically bad Colorado Rockies.

They need to stop giving opponents extra outs in the field and running into needless outs on the bases. If they don’t, it will be very difficult to string together wins and get back in contention.

Boston is too talented to keep playing sub-.500 baseball, even after trading its best player in Rafael Devers and losing Alex Bregman and Triston Casas to injuries. The Red Sox still have a plus-10 run differential, so they should be winning more games than they’re losing.

Bregman should be back soon, but he’s not going to save the season by himself. His teammates need to step up if Boston wants to put its disappointing first half in the rearview mirror and make a run this summer.