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- Updated: September 6, 2016
SAN DIEGO — For a team that leads the Majors Leagues in several of the most important categories, the Red Sox have lost a lot of games lately because of the inability to get the big hit in the late innings.
Monday’s 2-1 defeat with the Padres was yet another one in which one big hit with runners in scoring position would have changed everything.
It has been a recurring theme in the second half of the season, and magnified more on a day like this, when a victory would have put Boston back into a tie with the Blue Jays for first place in the American League East.
After winning the first two games of this nine-game road trip by scoring an aggregate 27 runs, the Sox have totaled one over the last two games — both losses.
“It’s the base hit with men in scoring position,” said Red Sox manager John Farrell. “We’ve had 15 left on the last two days. On days where we’ve come up a run short, there’s opportunities throughout the course of a ballgame that can change the storyline. But that’s not the case today.”
The first chance to change the storyline was in the top of the seventh, when Mookie Betts walked and Hanley Ramirez singled, and Edwin Jackson was finally in trouble.
But with …
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