Albert Pujols has more home runs than the Red Sox since mid-August
Cardinals legend Albert Pujols has 693 career home runs and is rapidly closing in on 700 for his big league career. While Pujols is mashing and marching towards history, here at home the Red Sox offense has had a massive power outage.
Since August 10th, Pujols has seven home runs while the Red Sox offense has hit only five. The last Red Sox homer came on Sunday night off the bat of Franchy Cordero.
Last week after the series against the Pirates, designated hitter J.D. Martinez talked about the offense struggle generating power.
“The offense is just stuck right now,” J.D. Martinez said. “We’re really not going forward. This is a potent lineup with three guys in the middle of the order [referring to himself, Rafael Devers, and Xander Bogaerts] that really drive the ball and really kind of aren’t doing that right now. It’s kind of just making it one of those offenses that is station to station right now.
“As an offense, I believe we’re underperforming.”
In Tuesday night’s loss to the Blue Jays, the Red Sox only managed three runs. That is the sixth time in the last 10 games the offense has been held to three runs or less. Failing to produce while having runners in scoring position has been a major catalyst of this team’s struggles offensively. The offense failing to hit the ball out of the ballpark is becoming a concern.
Over the last few weeks Pujols has become must see television while the Red Sox offense has been just the opposite. As Pujols attempts to get to 700 homers, the Sox are sitting seven games back of the final Wild Card spot.
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