{"id":45243,"date":"2025-03-30T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=45243"},"modified":"2025-03-30T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:23:22","slug":"red-sox-star-having-historically-bad-start-to-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=45243","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox star having historically bad start to season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article id=\"main\">\n<div><main role=\"main\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.thecomeback.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Red-Sox-Rafael-Devers-scaled-e1743322228870-832x447.jpg\" alt=\"Red Sox star having historically bad start to season\" width=\"832\" height=\"447\" \/> Mar 27, 2025; Arlington, Texas, USA; Boston Red Sox designated hitter Rafael Devers (11) walks in the dugout in the first inning against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Tim Heitman-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For the better part of his nine-year tenure with the Boston Red Sox, Rafael Devers has been one of the best hitters in all of baseball. But to start the 2025 MLB season, he has been anything but, joining an unfortunate category of players with his struggles at the plate through his first three games.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox have gone 1-2 thus far in their first series of the season against the Texas Rangers. Not the end of the world, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the play of Rafael Devers has been incredibly lackluster in the first three-game series of the year, going 0-13 at the plate with one walk and one RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Even more troublesome has been the fact that Devers hasn\u2019t even looked close to showing flashes of the player he has been throughout his career thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Of Devers\u2019 at-bats thus far this year, he has struck out ten times, which sets a new MLB record for the most strikeouts from any player in the first three games of a season in MLB history.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Boston Red Sox DH Rafael Devers just set a major-league record by striking out 10 times in the first three games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) March 30, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, three games out of a 162-game MLB season shouldn\u2019t be the biggest concern just yet for Red Sox fans. But regardless, it\u2019s not exactly the best sign from a player who has been a key factor in the Red Sox success on offense for years now.<\/p>\n<p>Devers will have one more chance to turn this dreadful series against the Rangers around in the finale of the four-game set on Sunday. But if his struggles continue, don\u2019t expect the noise around Devers to calm down anytime soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"author-box\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0c465f1144e6628d68db9322ca2c7cc7?s=96&amp;r=pg\" alt=\"Red Sox star having historically bad start to season\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Reice Shipley<\/h2>\n<p>Reice Shipley is a staff writer for Comeback Media that graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Sports Media. He previously worked at Barrett Sports Media and is a fan of all things Syracuse sports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Sox star Rafael Devers has had a historically bad start to the season, being held without a hit and ten strikeouts at the plate thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Sox star having historically bad start to season - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=45243\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Red Sox star having historically bad start to season - 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