Red Sox starters all looking for 1st playoff wins
The Boston Red Sox may be American League East champs, but there's a large elephant looming in the back corner of the clubhouse as the team heads into the ALDS.
David Price is 0-7 with a 5.27 ERA in his eight postseason starts, all of which his teams have lost. It's a little disturbing, but as the Boston Herald's Jason Mastrodonato points out, Price's postseason record is only part of it.
“I don’t think any one of us, any starter, has a playoff win,” Clay Buchholz said. “I guess that might be talked about.”
He's right. Rick Porcello - whose 22-4 record earned him the AL leader in wins this season - has two playoff starts with six earned runs in 12 2/3 innings. Buchholz has five playoff starts with 12 earned runs in 25 2/3 innings, and Eduardo Rodriguez has no playoff experience.
“It doesn’t matter to me,” Porcello said. “I know personally, I’ve thrown two games in the postseason where I thought I threw the ball really well, and we had a tie game in both of them and I got a no-decision. It’s like, who cares? You put yourself in a position to win, and if you don’t come out with a win, so what? But you did your job.”
As Mastrodonato notes, if the Sox can win a championship, they'd be the first winless playoff rotation for the franchise to do so since 1915.