Red Sox had a chance in this game early on with Scherzer being wild, but the thing about Scherzer is that he can turn it on pretty quick. Scherzer pitched into the seventh inning, Young hit a home run and the Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 on Thursday night to avoid a four-game series sweep.
The Tigers are a good team, it's would be tough to take 4 straight games from them. Saying that, there are still some alarming things going on with the Red Sox. We can all sit back and ignore Beckett's velocity drop, but it's there, and it leaves him very open to getting rocked. He is throwing 88-92 MPH, that's not really good when you pitched 93-95 just a year ago. It's not like he is old, so I don't know what the deal is.
Beckett went 7 innings allowing a season high 10 hits 4 runs with 1 K. That's not a terrible line, but this used to be a guy that would K a lot of hitters and that's just not the case. Maybe he is becoming more of a "pitcher", but just like Bard I find this worrisome.
In the end, the Sox have been winning a lot lately, they are still just 3 games back for the AL East and just need to make sure they don't go on one of those epic losing streaks.
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