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Betts just latest to step up as Red Sox star
- Updated: June 1, 2016
The Boston Red Sox have had the hottest player in baseball pretty much every single day of this season. If that sounds impressive, it’s actually better than that. We’re talking about four different players.
Depending on what stretch of games you’re watching, it has been either David Ortiz or Xander Bogaerts or Jackie Bradley Jr. carrying a large share of the load. At times, all of them have been on the kind of roll that can carry an entire club.
Oh, and there’s Mookie Betts.
Maybe the Red Sox took a vote before Tuesday’s 6-2 win over the Orioles and decided this would be his time on center stage. Bradley was away on paternity leave, and Ortiz and Bogaerts were held to a single apiece.
• Mookie 1st Red Sox leadoff hitter to hit 3 HRs
All the Red Sox did was remind us that their lineup is the deepest in baseball by a wide margin. That’s why they’ve scored 308 runs, tops in the Majors and 52 more than any other American League team (Mariners). Their plus-80 run differential is the second highest in the Majors behind the Cubs (plus-128).
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Yes, it’s looking more and more like a Red Sox summer. Betts homered in the first, second and seventh innings and made a diving catch in right field on Tuesday as the Red Sox ran their lead in the American League East to a …
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