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- Updated: August 27, 2016
BOSTON — What should have been an occasion for Mookie Betts to celebrate the first five-hit game of his career was instead another night for the Red Sox to wonder why they are having such difficulty cashing in on scoring opportunities.
A 6-3 loss to the Royals in Friday night’s opener of a six-game homestand was maddening in the sense that manager John Farrell’s team pounded out 15 hits.
“Yeah, obviously, any time you do something like that, you want to win,” said Betts. “It doesn’t count unless you win, so you’ve got to turn the page and get ready for tomorrow.”
With Betts going 5-for-5, Dustin Pedroia producing a 4-for-4 evening and Xander Bogaerts ending a recent slump with a 3-for-5 performance, it would stand to reason that there would have been some crooked numbers for the home team on the Fenway Park scoreboard.
Instead, there was a run in the first, another in the sixth and one more in the ninth, when the last missed opportunity ended along with the game.
“We continually do a great job of creating opportunities, and I’m confident that this will turn,” said Farrell. “I can’t say that we expanded the strike …
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