Red Sox 2-10

Is it time to start panicking in Boston yet? After dropping a 7-6 game to the Toronto Blue Jays tonight, the Sox are now 2-10, and are the only team in baseball with fewer than 4 wins. Their run differential of -33 is the worst in the majors, they're 0-6 away from Fenway and they are 0-9 against teams that aren't the Yankees.

The offense continues to have issues:

Carl Crawford 7/51 (.137)
Jacoby Ellsbury 8/41 (.195)
Kevin Youkilis 7/35 (.200)
Marco Scutaro 6/32 (.188)
Jarrod Saltalamacchia 4/29 (.138)
Mike Cameron 1/11 (.091)
Jason Varitek 1/10 (.100)
Darnell McDonald 1/8 (.125)

So 8 of the 13 position players on the roster are hitting .200 or worse. The Sox were hoping to run on teams this year but their two best baserunners, Crawford and Ellsbury, are NEVER on base. Boston's catchers are 5 for 39. Nobody has hit more than 2 home runs and the team only has 9 in 12 games.

And then there's the pitching:

Clay Buchholz 0-2 6.60 ERA 5 home runs allowed in 15 innings
John Lackey 1-1 15.58 ERA 17 hits allowed in 8 2/3 innings
Daisuke Matsuzaka 0-2 12.86 ERA 14 hits allowed in 7 innings
Daniel Bard 0-2 9.64 ERA 4 2/3 innings
Bobby Jenks 0-1 8.31 ERA 4 1/3 innings
Dan Wheeler 14.54 ERA 10 hits allowed in 4 1/3 innings
Felix Doubront 9.00 ERA 2 innings
Dennys Reyes 16.20 ERA 1 2/3 innings
Tim Wakefield 5.79 ERA 9 1/3 innings

Of the 12 pitchers on the active roster right now, 8 have an ERA over 5.50. Reyes has already been sent back to AAA and the staff has surrendered 21 home runs. 6 times already this season, Boston has allowed at least 7 runs in one game. Against Boston on Monday night they gave up 16 to a Rays team that had scored just 20 all year.

Things are BAD right now. And while there's still no reason to think this team isn't more than capable of turning it around considering all the talent they have, you have to start becoming concerned about WHEN it's all actually going to happen. And it doesn't get a whole lot easier moving forward. After the series with Toronto, Boston heads out on a 9 game road trip that takes them from Boston to the West Coast and then all the way back to Baltimore before finally coming back home.

It's time for someone to step up for Boston. Josh Beckett, who was on the hill for Boston's last win, will take the ball tomorrow as the Sox desperately try to right their ship.