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Dustin Pedroia: Red Sox playing like a ‘[crappy] team’ 09.22.11 at 10:48 am ET
By Mike Petraglia

Dustin Pedroia is left looking for answers.

Dustin Pedroia knows how bad the Red Sox are playing. It’s so bad that he knows the win total for the month of September but has lost track of the losses. The latest one, of course, came via a 6-4 meltdown at the hands of the Orioles when Josh Beckett, of all people, couldn’t hold a 4-1 lead Wednesday night heading into the seventh inning.

“We’re not playing good,” Pedroia said. “It’s obvious. You don’t win games. What are we this month? Five and …”

He knew the five wins part but had lost track of the losses. Told it’s 16 losses in September, Pedroia didn’t hide his disgust.

“That’s a sign of a [expletive] team. Good teams don’t 5-16 in any month.”

Then came the predictable questions. Is the team pressing?

“I’m not pressing,” Pedroia said. “I don’t think anyone else is. We’re just not winning. That’s it.”

Has the problem become more mental than physical?

“What do you mean? Who’s mental? I don’t know, man. I show up here ready to win. So does everyone else,” Pedroia said. “We need to score more runs than them. We didn’t do that. We haven’t done that in a while.”

What else could the Red Sox try to kick-start their motor?

Anything left we can try? We can play better. That’s basically it.”

Does turning around the season after losing the first six games and opening 2-10 show they are capable of doing the same now?

“I hope,” he said. “It’s the same guys. Hopefully, it can.”

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  • Watruduin

    Who the hell is the leader in the clubhouse. If no one is pressing and everyone is coming to the game ready to play and win, then they would be winning. Why won’t they man up and admit they are pressing and the entire thing started trying to get Wake his 200th win. Does Pedroia really think all fans are dumb. I’ve been watching this game, following the Red Sox and also other teams long before he was even born. What he and other team members have to say is an insult not only to my basball intelligence, but many other fan’s.

  • haroldburbank

    like pedey said, it’s still the same guys. this is MLBs best offense. they’ve got to play like it again to carry the pitching, else it’s OVA.

    baseball is a very simple kids’ game. i’d feel better if everyone played as hard as pedey. right now that seems to be the biggest issue. we know the pitching stinks, so the position guys have to pick up the slack. some intelligent pressing – lots of line drive base hits rather then swings for the fences, aggressive and sensible base running, real focus, by batters and pitchers, on each pitch thrown – would go a long way to comeback mode.

  • Robert

    Pedey should have been rested more in the 2nd half. This is a little guy who gives 100 percent every game.He want’s to play 162,but would be more effective with a week off in August or Sept.Hate to beat a dead horse, but Tito is not tough enough to manage these players and do whats best for them.

  • zouki

    They seem to have forgotten that “you play to win the game”. I suspect that some of them haven’t grasped the idea that there’s a big difference in attitude between “winning” (which depends on me) and “not losing” (which depends on you). Do either Beckett or Lester impress anyone as being consumed with the “fire in the belly” we all purportedly admire? They look the same when they lose as when they win (fair play to Papelbon – this has never been his problem). At least they could pretend to be concerned.

    Scary to think that we may have just witnessed the end of Youk’s best years. He may never wind up in Cooperstown but at least he showed some feeling for what he was doing. I don’t get that feeling from anybody else on this team besides Petey.

    I think Gonzales will be great once he starts to think like a Bostonian and less like a Southern Californian. (And if MLB calls next season offering him a place in the Home Run Derby, hang up on them.) Crawford gives the impression of being totally terrified by the whole thing but at least he doesn’t make excuses about it (nor however does he return his weekly paycheck to the front office).

    Lackey is pathetic to watch; you keep thinking “surely he can’t be this bad all the time” and then sure enough, he is. Maybe Sox medical staff could come up with some kind of bogus surgical procedure that would keep him on the disabled list for three seasons or so, encouraging him to take online university courses in Bill James moneyball math so that he has a front office career somewhere when his pitching days are over (which may have happened around May of this year and we just didn’t know it).

    Predictions: Wake will NOT retire; Dice-K will never be seen in a Sox uniform again; Buchholz will throw an inning this weekend and re-injure his backbone; Josh Reddick will screw up at least one routine play in right, and the remaining 376 Sox fans who care will begin chanting “Bring back J.D.Drew”; Theo, hearing the clamor, will re-sign J.D. Drew for 5 years, $80 million.

    How many weeks to pitchers and catchers?

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