The Boston Red Sox have shown a concerning trend of failing to protect leads in recent games. Despite a solid bullpen, the issue lies in the batting performance, leading to lost games from promising positions. Over their last five games, despite strong starts and high win expectancy rates, they won only three of these matchups. The article highlights key games where the Red Sox had over 75% win expectancy but faltered, underlining the need for improvement at the plate to avoid losing opportunities in future contests.
In five of those nine losses, their win expectancy peaked at over 75% before they failed to lock it up.
The Sox had an 83% win expectancy when Trevor Story came up in the bottom of the tenth inning with a man on third representing the winning run.
Their win expectancy was 79%... but they didn't score another run the rest of the way and lost on a ninth-inning walk off 3-2.
This time the win expectancy peaked at 84% when Boston came to bat up 4-2 in the bottom of the sixth.
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