by The Red Sox went missing a few weeks ago and no one was able to find Trevor Story, the free agent from the Rockies who had become the second major player for $ 140 million (over six years) at Fenway Park. A team that was in two victories in the World Series last October was at the bottom of AL East with a record of 10-19.
Even when the Red Sox finally showed some life and some fighting by winning consecutive series against the Rangers and Astros, the Story was still hitting just 0.205 and marking 0.293 with a trivial OPS of 0.320.
Then everything changed last week against the Mariners, when Story had his second three-game home game at the start of a sweeping four-legged battle against Seattle that seems to have changed the Red Sox season. Four hits throughout that night, seven RBIs. Soon, Story was the Player of the Week in the American League due to a .360 / .452 / 1.120 vertical line and reminded everyone how quickly things can change in baseball for a player and his team.
On Tuesday night against the White Sox Story, another three-pointer hit Homer, in the first inning of what turned into a 16-3 beatdown that brought the Red Sox record to 20-22. Apparently almost everyone except Papi Ortiz has been hitting for the Red Sox lately. But it all seemed to revolve around what quickly became such an amazing story: Trevor Story’s.
He is currently the most dangerous 0.231 striker in the entire sport, as the Red Sox look like the hottest team in the league. The story is up to eight homers and 33 RBI and 23 runs are scored. As people wondered how much he missed Coors Field, he did what the Red Sox signed: Make his new stadium look as friendly to his home as his old one.
“I said [Story] “A few weeks ago μαστε we trust you,” Red Sox director Alex Cora said the other day. “He is playing free and that’s something I told him in the recruitment process. “You know, adding another athlete to the squad will help us.”
Not only did Story remind everyone, except Red Sox fans, of the way he always played for his old team, but he also reminded us that sometimes he moves to a new team, a new city, a new place, a new fan. base – and even higher expectations than ever – is not as easy as just wearing a new outfit.
We saw it again from the beginning. And he finally heard it on Fenway after the White Sox completed a scan of three Sox games. It was the low point for them and for Story. He hit six times in that series, three in the last game. After the last one, the disapproval for him, from the crowd of the home team, was as strong as it was. After that game, he was not available in the media, so his bat – his average was 0.194 after his last attack – was largely unavailable to his new team in April and now May.
But in the first game of the series against Chicago, no one had fun with his team and no one had fun with Trevor Story, who not only reminded people how he could hit, but showed how he reacted. being hit, and knocked down.
Rockies manager Bud Black, the former Story captain whose team reached 20-22 on Tuesday night, said he was never worried that Story would change things.
Mavros: “He always cared about all the right things. His team, his teammates and his respect for the game. “He always has as much work ability as any player I have ever been to.”
So Story managed to get out of the hole he dug for himself in the first month of the season and the job really started to pay off in that 6-1 homestand that the Red Sox had just finished. Then came that game of three pitches against Seattle, it was as if the lights were on with him. Again: This is the winner the Sox believed to be taking, the one whose presence in Cora’s batting line would make up for the Red Sox right-handed bat lost to Hunter Renfroe (31 home games for Renfroe last season, 96 RBI).
Here’s something Cora said in Chicago, as the story went deep again:
“It does an amazing job of damaging the belt.”
It never is. Story is now 18-for-76 in May, and that includes its slow start to the month. He has now scored eight home wins in his last 12 games. There are much higher average beats in front of him in the Sox series. Rafael Devers, one of the best net scorers on the planet, is at 0.337. Xander Bogaerts is 0.323. JD Martinez had four more hits on Tuesday, reaching 0.366.
But the way the Sox have exploded over the past week seems to have been triggered by the new guy hitting behind them all. Some story.
