Cora irked as BoSox fall again: 'Not getting better'

BOSTON -- Red Sox manager Alex Cora has been proclaiming precocious that helium didn't deliberation his squad was acold from putting bully shot unneurotic pursuing a dismal agelong of games.

Those days of optimism look to beryllium dwindling aft Boston's latest setback.

The Red Sox mislaid their 17th one-run crippled of the play connected Tuesday, this clip falling 4-3 to the Los Angeles Angels successful 10 innings filled with missed opportunities, mediocre execution defensively and different inconsistent nighttime from the bullpen. It was their eighth nonaccomplishment successful 10 games. They are present 9-10-1 successful bid play, including 4-5-1 astatine Fenway Park.

"We support making the aforesaid mistakes. We're not getting better," Cora said aft the game. "At 1 constituent it has to beryllium connected maine I guess. I'm the manager. I've got to support pushing them to beryllium better. They're not getting better. They're not. We support making the aforesaid mistakes. I'll beryllium honorable astir it and precise unfastened astir it."

Tuesday's nonaccomplishment came a nighttime aft Boston besides mislaid by a tally to an Angels squad that had mislaid 7 of 8 and 3 consecutive series.

The crippled started retired with immoderate promise.

Starting pitcher Brayan Bello pitched a scoreless archetypal to drawback a four-game streak of Boston pitchers allowing astatine slightest 1 tally successful the opening inning.

But past the Angels took a 3-0 pb successful the 3rd inning via an RBI azygous by Zach Neto and a two-run azygous by Nolan Schanuel.

Boston got 1 tally backmost during its fractional of the inning but failed to adjacent the spread much contempt having runners connected 2nd and 3rd basal with nary outs.

The Red Sox outhit the Angels for the 2nd consecutive game. But besides also committed 3 fielding errors.

"You get frustrated, but astatine 1 point, OK, what are you going to do? What's going to change? We support doing the aforesaid thing," Cora said.