Pedroia: Sox have to time to regain identity

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CLEVELAND — The Red Sox didn’t just lose the first two games of this American League Division Series. According to longtime leader Dustin Pedroia, they also lost their identity.

The way Pedroia looks at it, if his team can get that back, perhaps they can make this a series (Game 3, Sunday at 4 p.m. ET on TBS).

“I think, coming into this series, we had a lot of guys the last couple of games feeling it out, everybody, me included,” Pedroia said after Friday’s 6-0 loss to the Indians at Progressive Field.

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“I think we lost who we are — we’re the Boston Red Sox,” Pedroia added. “We need to go out there and play the game. We should dictate the tempo of the game and how everything should be played. The last couple of days, they did that and we didn’t. We have to get to our workout [Saturday] and play pitch by pitch the next game and that’s all we can do right now.”

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