Red Sox outfield trio’s continued importance for World Series success
This Red Sox outfield trio is integral for the team’s success. They will have to perform like they have been all season, in order to win a championship.
The talented trio of Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi, and Jackie Bradley Jr. have been a spectacle in Boston. Their individual defensive abilities and the way they work to protect the outfield together, at Fenway and beyond, forms as dominant an outfield as they come. With the Boston Red Sox reaching the World Series and trying to clinch their ninth world championship, this team of phenomenal fielders will need to perform as they have done up until now.
Top performances from the three will bolster Boston’s chances, as they’re integral to what the Red Sox do on both offense and defense.
The talents of all three form a formidable force. A force Boston hasn’t seen since the memorable days of Jim Rice, Fred Lynn and Dwight Evans, back in the coveted late-1970s era. Although we’re talking about three Red Sox Hall of Famers here, Boston’s ‘B Boys’ have a chance to do what the greats of Red Sox outfield history never did. That is to win a World Series title. It’s easy to overlook a player’s career for not winning the Fall Classic. But, for Boston, in those gut-wrenching 86 years without one, legends of the game, and the very best did go without. The greatest of all time – Ted Williams and the loved Carl Yastrzemski – to name a few.
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Red Sox history has come in portions. From the early Red Sox of 1903 and the 1910s’, outfields consisting of great players like Harry Hooper helped win Boston’s first five championships. And, to the outfields of the 21st century, consisting of star hitter Manny Ramirez. The most significant outfields didn’t win a championship and won’t be remembered any lesser for it.
However, this season’s outfield could be one to remember for that other reason. Betts, who should claim the AL MVP Award later this fall, together with the defensive machine, Bradley, one of the most memorable center fielders for the Red Sox when it comes to making plays, and young budding Benintendi, who draws comparisons to Lynn, with his beautiful left-handed swing, forms an outfield to remember for a generation of fans. It marks a new era in Red Sox baseball.
Betts, Benintendi and Bradley Jr. will be pivotal to this year’s World Series. They’ll need to play the outfield like they have done all season. All three will need to be their best at the plate too. Betts will need to continue being his MVP-self, Benintendi will need to remain cool and swing like he has this year, and if JBJ is half as clutch as he was in the ALCS, it will go a hell of a long way to pushing this Red Sox offense on.
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Alex Cora will need to decide how to manage the games at Dodger Stadium, with Betts going to second base, which he is comfortable with, a likely scenario. This will allow another MVP candidate in offensive superstar J.D. Martinez to get his at-bats. This outfield will play at Fenway, and most likely all feature in every game, as they’re key to this season and what the Red Sox will want to do, also moving forward.