Red Sox Offense Struggles in Early Season

0:00It's April 3rd. Welcome in. This is Boston Red Sox News today, where your team meets AI. I'm Cory with the story. The Boston Red Sox are stumbling off the gate with a 1-win 5-loss record and a 5-game losing streak heading into their home opener at Fenway. Park. The biggest red flag is their offense, which is scored just 17 runs over 6 games, tying them for 29th and baseball. They're hitting a week 208 with a 6-4-2 on base plus lugging percentage. Both ranking 20 second in the majors. Digging deeper, the strikeouts are killing them at a 29.4% rate, 4th worst in the league. They're chasing 31.9% of pitches outside the zone, landing in the bottom 10 there too. Leed off guys Trevor Story and Roman Anthony are whiffing over 44% of the time, making it tough to string anything together. Fans are frustrated because this squad was built to make contact, especially with runners-on, but in high-leveraged spots, they're batting just. 120 and striking out 51.9% of the time. That pressure cooker is exposing some real cracks early on.

1:06Not everything's doom and gloom, though. Why layer Abreu is on fire, batting 421 with 3 homers, tying him for 3rd in the bigs and 10th in average. Back-up catcher Conor Wong has surprised with 3 doubles in 4 games, which could ease the load on the starters if he keeps it up. They've got a shot to turn it around Friday at 2.10pm Eastern against the San Diego Padres, and if the bats wake up, this rough patch could fade. Fast into playoff talk.