David Price finally dominates, but Red Sox throw it all away

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — When it was over and Hanley Ramirez’s high, wide throw had settled in the grass behind home plate, a half-dozen Boston Red Sox officials filed out of a suite, their heads hanging low enough to drag the infield dirt. And there in the front row, all by himself, was president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski, unable to look away after the season’s most difficult loss to watch.

It wasn’t supposed to go down this way. Not after struggling ace David Price dominated the Los Angeles Angels for eight innings Thursday night. In the opener of an 11-game West Coast swing, the kind that can blow up even the most promising season, Price gave up seven hits but no runs in a performance that easily could have set the tone for the rest of the trip.

Instead, the Sox threw it all away in a 2-1 loss to the Angels.

A Hanley Ramirez throwing error and very little offense from the Boston lineup marred an otherwise dominant start from David Price. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

“Oh, he was unbelievable,” Ramirez said of Price. “He knew we needed a big game from him, and he came out and did his job.”

If only Price’s teammates could have said the same after their fourth consecutive loss — their sixth in the last seven games. The Red Sox are 8-32 when they score fewer than five runs and 11-13 in one-run games. And at a time when Dombrowski has brought most of the baseball ops and scouting staffs together for meetings in advance of Monday’s trade deadline, it’s worth wondering whether there’s any deal he can make that will fix the team’s apparent flaws.

“We feel like this is …

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