Well, the Sox are now dealing with an injured injury replacement. Nick Sogard, who has been with the Sox since Trevor Story went down with a hernia, is now experiencing some “side soreness” himself and has been placed on the 10-day IL. Coming east from Worcester to replace him is Anthony Seigler, who was acquired in the now-infamous Kyle Harrison-Caleb Durbin trade and who has been tearing it up in AAA to the tune of a .298/.425/.471 stat line with 3 homers. (Sean McAdam, MassLive)
And how is Trevor Story doing, anyway? He was back at Fenway yesterday, working on his, umm, walking, if the lede to this story is to believed. After undergoing surgery on the aforementioned hernia, he is expected to be out for 8-12 weeks. “It just kept getting worse, kept getting worse, and I couldn’t recover from it, and it was obviously affecting me on both sides of the ball,” he said. “You don’t get a trophy for going out there and just dragging your right leg with you and playing, so it was a situation where I felt like I needed to do it to be the best version of myself, and go out there and play the way I know how to.” (Alex Speier, Boston Globe)
As for Garrett Crochet, an MRI this week revealed that he has a “very low grade lat strain.” We don’t yet have a timeline for his return, but he will be permitted to begin throwing again as soon as he no longer feels any discomfort. (Christopher Smith, MassLive)
Thankfully, the pitching rotation has more or less held up during Crochet’s absence. There is, however, some concern about the amount of home runs Connelly Early is giving up, as he’s now allowed 11 in his last 9 starts. (Christopher Smith, MassLive)
Early gave up another bomb to Pete Alonso last night, as the Sox once again lost at Fenway. With a 9-20 home record, the Sox are the only big league team with fewer than 10 home wins and are off to their worst home start since 1932. (Khari A. Thompson, Boston.com)
Is there any particular reason for the poor home performance? Isiah Kiner-Falefa made some cryptic comments about unnamed groups of people being around the team too much at home, but others aren’t so sure. “I don’t know. I think baseball happens,” Wilyer Abreu said. “Right now, we can’t win games here, but we’re trying, we’re battling, we’re trying our best and working on trying to win here.” (Ian Browne, MLB.com)
While Connelly Early is starting to give up too many homers, Abreu is starting to hit too few. Abreu, who, along with Willson Contreras, has carried the Sox limp offense for much of the season, hasn’t made a trip around the bases since May 8 and has more strikeouts than hits over his last 16 games. (Tyler Maher, NESN.com)
