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The Red Sox compiled an impressive 56-25 record at home this season, but after the season ended on Sunday afternoon, some players weren't too happy with the so-called home-field advantage.Hey Dustin, you should probably be thinking about your closer giving up a two-run single after the play which led to two runs, and then the three runs he allowed with two outs in the ninth. I think that's why you guys lost. Or maybe you should look at yourself and your .167 batting average over the three games. And losing those first two in Anaheim didn't help much either.
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When asked if he could have turned a double play on Morales' grounder, Pedroia gave a bold answer.
"Yeah, it took a bad hop," he said with blood gushing from his right knee from the dive. "Our infield [stinks]. It's the worst in the game. I'm not lying about that. That is true. It took a bad hop and I just tried to put my body in front of it to get an out."
Pedroia talked about teams capitalizing on breaks, just like the Angels did in the last two innings en route to victory. Papelbon didn't make a bad pitch in the situation, he induced a ground ball. Morales did hurt the Sox with a hit, either. It was a bad break for Boston.
"I think about those things, too," said Pedroia. "That stuff upsets me. My job is to take 1,000 ground balls a day, and other guys' job is to get the field perfect so we can play baseball. It happens. That's the way it goes."
Whatever happened to "hey, we just got beat"?
Someone once told me if you want to know the character of a team see if they make excuses for themselves when they lose. We always knew the Red Sox were a bunch of bums, this just confirms it.
