{"id":52996,"date":"2025-06-03T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=52996"},"modified":"2025-06-03T01:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T01:34:00","slug":"red-soxs-alex-bregman-in-good-spirits-amid-injury-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=52996","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox\u2019s Alex Bregman \u2018In Good Spirits\u2019 Amid Injury Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Red Sox\u00a0third baseman Alex Bregman\u00a0has missed the team\u2019s last nine games with a strained right quad, and it\u2019s been challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Bregman, who broke out on a red-hot start to begin the season, and the Red Sox, in need of all the production they can get, have struggled to weather the storm. When Bregman last took the field \u2014 on May 23 against the Baltimore Orioles \u2014 Boston stood second in the division, but the lineup\u2019s ongoing swoon at the plate has dropped the club to fourth place at 8 1\/2 games back of the first-place New York Yankees. It\u2019s been hard for Bregman to sit back and watch the slump unfold from the dugout, but manager Alex Cora revealed that the 10-year veteran isn\u2019t hanging his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting treatment, feeling better,\u201d Cora said before Monday night\u2019s game against the Los Angeles Angels,\u00a0per MassLive\u2019s Christopher Smith. \u201cGood to see him around. Obviously helping everybody. But in good spirits. So it was a good week for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox signed Bregman to a three-year, $120 million contract in the offseason, and the two-time World Series champion has been every bit as advertised.\u00a0Bregman slashed .299\/.385\/.553\u00a0with 11 home runs and 35 RBIs across 51 games before suffering the quad injury \u2014 similar to the one that sidelined Bregman for over two months during his 2021 season with the Houston Astros. Bregman has been a\u00a0lead-by-example figure\u00a0in the clubhouse, an invested teammate and avid supporter of the youth movement that\u2019s embraced rookies Kristian Campbell, Carlos Narv\u00e1ez and Marcelo Mayer.<\/p>\n<p>Without Bregman, it\u2019s been brutal. Boston has gone 3-6, plummeting in the American League East and the offense has been a strikeout machine, tallying 90 throughout the stretch. The Red Sox have hit .217 without Bregman\u2019s assistance, the defense has been equally as hard to watch and the need for a turnaround is amplified by each passing day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nesn-in-content-ad\">\n<p>It\u2019s been a season-long search for answers for the 2025 Red Sox, and the team will need to do its job in demonstrating some sense of urgency to hold the fort down until Bregman returns. Otherwise, Bregman will suffer the same fate that has anchored the organization for the past four seasons in the form of a postseason swing and miss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Red Sox\u00a0third baseman Alex Bregman\u00a0has missed the team\u2019s last nine games with a strained right quad, and it\u2019s been challenging. 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