{"id":588300,"date":"2026-04-06T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:21:09","slug":"roman-anthony-red-soxs-start-unacceptable-for-fans-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588300\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Anthony: Red Sox’s start ‘unacceptable’ for fans, team"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Red Sox<\/a> fell to a major-league-worst 2-7 on Sunday, tying the weakest start through nine games in the franchise’s long history.<\/p>\n

Some “sell the team” chants could be heard at Fenway Park in the ninth inning of their latest defeat, an 8-6<\/a> setback to the San Diego Padres<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Young slugger Roman Anthony<\/a> said afterward that fans have every right to be upset.<\/p>\n

“This is unacceptable. It’s unacceptable for the fans,” Anthony told reporters. “It’s unacceptable to the standard that we set for ourselves.”<\/p>\n

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Boston’s offseason additions have especially struggled out of the gate.<\/p>\n

Offensively, Willson Contreras<\/a>, Caleb Durbin<\/a>, Andruw Monasterio<\/a> and Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/a> have combined to go 8-for-70 at the plate (.114) with a .171 slugging percentage (one home run total) and 20 strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Pitching hasn’t been much better.<\/p>\n

Ranger Suarez<\/a>, who was signed to a five-year, $130 million deal in free agency in the wake of Alex Bregman<\/a>‘s move to the Cubs<\/a>, couldn’t make it out of the fifth inning Sunday, dropping to 0-2 with an 8.64 ERA across his first two starts with his new team. He was spotted a 4-0 lead through three innings but quickly gave most of it back, with San Diego’s rally boosted by a Manny Machado<\/a> kicked pickoff attempt.<\/a><\/p>\n

“He’ll be the first one to say there’s no excuse,” manager Alex Cora told reporters of Suarez. “He was making good pitches. … They made adjustments, started swinging at the first pitch, got their hits and then that happened.”<\/p>\n

Anthony said no single person is to blame for the early-season woes.<\/p>\n

“I think just as a team, we need to be better,” he said. “I need to be better. Everyone in this room understands that they need to be better. And it’s as simple as that. A lot of season left.”<\/p>\n

It won’t get any easier. NL Central-leading Milwaukee<\/a> (7-2) arrives in Boston for the start of a three-game series Monday.<\/p>\n

“The record is the record,” Cora said, according to The Boston Globe. “We’ve just got so show up [Monday]. We have another tough team coming in, one of the best teams in baseball. We’ve got to play better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox fell to a major-league-worst 2-7 on Sunday, tying the weakest start through nine games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-588300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}