Red Sox manager Alex Cora sends his team a strong message

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The Boston Red Sox can’t figure out how to put together a winning streak, as they haven’t won three consecutive games this season. The Red Sox have two losing streaks of three or more games (March 28 to April 1 and April 4-6) and have lost two straight to the New York Yankees.

Unable to fully put things together as a team, Red Sox manager Alex Cora voiced his frustrations that his players aren’t producing when they need to.

Alex Cora says that the Boston Red Sox “need to be better”

“We have to be better,” Cora said postgame. “Second and third with no outs, we've got to score. We've got to find a way to put the ball in play and score and where we’re at right now, it's been tough. The whole home stand, right? We had some situations with [Tarik] Skubal when he pitched, bases loaded no outs. We score one, first and third, no outs, we didn’t score. So we got to be better. Everybody here believes that we have a good team. Good teams have to find a way to score runs against good pitching.”

The Red Sox's lone run came on a two-out single to centerfield by outfielder Jarren Duran, which scored infielder Trevor Story. The game would end a batter later when infielder Caleb Durbin grounded out to shortstop.