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And that ends the ballgame.

A swing and a miss for strike three.

Red Sox going order in the ninth inning.

Not much offense at all, and Texas wins at four-to-one to take the first game of the four-game series.

All right, there you have it.

Red Sox can't get the bats going again last night. They fall to the Rangers 4 to 1. And you know what? If you weren't watching the Sox last night on a night where the Patriots draft their quarterback of the future, I can't say I blame you. Why would I blame you? But they're back at it tonight against the Rangers, two out of four game two, Nathan Avaldi on the mound for the socks tonight as they look to get the bats going and they look to get back in the wind

column it's Matt McCarthy in for Tony Mazz tonight on the baseball hour why don't you join us

early and often they 617 779-0985 I see jimmy has released hounds, as one program would say here. So join us early on tonight. Jim Murray is also going to stick around for the next few minutes or so. So I'm sure he's thrilled about that, but I will say I'm happy to have Murray. We'll get his thoughts in just a second. So the Red Sox lose four to one last night. They had just three hits. and that has been the trend for the Red Sox in the last week or so. Now, granted, in all fairness, Jacob DeGrom was pitching in one of those games. And you score one run against Jacob de Grom. I'm sorry, that's a victory. That guy's the best pitcher in baseball. But the trend for the last week, even outside of the Gron game, just throw that out for a

second. The trend for the last week has been that the Red Sox are not hitting. In the last week,

they've scored just 11 runs on 23 hits. And the offensive output has been a problem for the last

five games. So my question to you tonight as we open up the show is this. Do you think this is just a bump in the road? Things happen like this. It's 162. It's a long season. We all know that. You think this is a bump in the road or do you think this is a sign of some more problems to come? Why don't you let me know? 617-779-0-985. And I'll tell you right now that statistically, they've been good.

I mean, they've been really good.

There's no denying that.

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