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Frustration with Clay Buchholz’s performance mounting
- Updated: May 14, 2016
8:09 PM ET
BOSTON — Time and again, the scene has played out over and over in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse, Clay Buchholz facing the music after another outing marred by early turbulence, trying to explain to dozens of reporters what went wrong out there.
“It’s really frustrating. You play to win, we won the game, so that cures a little bit of it,” the Red Sox right-hander said, his long face running counter to an otherwise overjoyed clubhouse on the heels of another David Ortiz walk-off. “But it’s got me scratching my head at points.”
Of Buchholz’s eight starts so far this season, Saturday was already the fifth time he has surrendered five earned runs. In the second inning, his pitches were all over the strike zone, and he ended up paying dearly after Houston’s George Springer turned on a waist-high, 90-mile-per-hour cutter and cranked it off the ThinkEnergy billboard high above the Monster seats in left-center field for his second grand slam of the …
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