Red Sox batters continue to struggle vs left hand pitching on the road

The Boston Red Sox are an offensive juggernaut. They lead the league in multiple offensive statistics and at times are unstoppable. Except the Sox have their kryptonite, left hand pitching on the road.

Why? That's debatable.

Boston's ranks vs the American League. 14th in doubles (?), last in triples, last in HR, 13th in RBI, last in batting average, last in slugging and last in OPS.

Now you see what I'm talking about.

Here are the AL team numbers sorted by OPS.

TEAM	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	BA	OBA	SLG	OPS
LAA	482	145	27	2	15	69	43	80	0.301	0.361	0.459	0.819
TBR	377	104	25	4	11	51	34	86	0.276	0.348	0.451	0.799
OAK	301	80	16	0	15	44	21	53	0.266	0.320	0.468	0.788
SEA	684	178	28	0	33	100	59	163	0.260	0.323	0.446	0.769
CHW	413	111	20	3	14	53	24	105	0.269	0.315	0.433	0.749
BAL	491	121	26	0	22	73	43	120	0.246	0.308	0.434	0.742
TOR	512	122	21	3	23	59	53	116	0.238	0.315	0.426	0.740
HOU	521	128	28	3	18	59	50	139	0.246	0.324	0.415	0.739
DET	476	123	19	3	16	57	46	119	0.258	0.324	0.412	0.736
KCR	402	103	11	0	17	35	25	99	0.256	0.305	0.410	0.715
NYY	576	150	27	3	14	63	44	123	0.260	0.317	0.391	0.708
CLE	476	120	25	4	12	59	32	121	0.252	0.298	0.397	0.695
MIN	476	113	24	3	14	58	42	136	0.237	0.305	0.389	0.694
TEX	546	136	18	1	19	66	39	126	0.249	0.302	0.390	0.692
BOS	414	98	16	0	11	45	50	90	0.237	0.318	0.355	0.673
TOTAL	7,147	1,832	331	29	254	891	605	1,676	0.256	0.319	0.417	0.736

Here are the Boston Red Sox individual stats sorted by AB's. Look at JBJ, Pedey, Shaw,. Ugh..

PLAYER	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	BA	OBA	SLG	OPS
Jackie Bradley, Jr.	47	8	2	0	0	2	7	13	0.170	0.273	0.213	0.486
David Ortiz	46	12	2	0	2	10	7	8	0.261	0.358	0.435	0.793
Mookie Betts	45	11	1	0	1	2	4	7	0.244	0.306	0.333	0.639
Xander Bogaerts	43	10	0	0	1	5	3	7	0.233	0.277	0.302	0.579
Hanley Ramirez	42	13	3	0	2	5	5	6	0.310	0.383	0.524	0.907
Dustin Pedroia	39	5	0	0	0	0	8	11	0.128	0.277	0.128	0.405
Travis Shaw	32	2	1	0	0	5	4	12	0.062	0.184	0.094	0.278
Bryce Brentz	23	6	1	0	1	3	3	8	0.261	0.346	0.435	0.781
Sandy Leon	19	8	2	0	1	7	1	3	0.421	0.450	0.684	1.134
Chris Young	16	7	3	0	2	2	3	3	0.438	0.526	1.000	1.526
Christian Vazquez	15	4	1	0	0	0	1	1	0.267	0.312	0.333	0.645
Aaron Hill	13	3	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.231	0.231	0.462	0.693
Ryan Hanigan	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Josh Rutledge	8	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	0.375	0.444	0.375	0.819
Marco Hernandez	5	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0.600	0.600	0.600	1.200
Brock Holt	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0.250	0.500	0.250	0.750
Blake Swihart	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.667	0.750	0.667	1.417
David Price	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Ryan LaMarre	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Michael Miller	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Here are the left hand pitchers the Red Sox have faced. Not exactly a who's who of dominating lefties.

PITCHER	AB	Hits	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	BA	OBA	SLG	OPS
James Paxton	27	4	1	0	1	1	0	6	0.148	0.148	0.296	0.444
Jose Quintana	27	4	0	0	1	1	0	5	0.148	0.148	0.259	0.407
CC Sabathia	25	9	0	0	1	5	3	2	0.360	0.429	0.480	0.909
Matt Moore	24	3	0	0	0	0	2	6	0.125	0.192	0.125	0.317
Wade LeBlanc	23	5	3	0	1	3	1	5	0.217	0.250	0.478	0.728
Martin Perez	23	6	0	0	1	1	2	2	0.261	0.320	0.391	0.711
Blake Snell	23	8	1	0	0	4	4	4	0.348	0.444	0.391	0.835
Carlos Rodon	22	6	0	0	1	3	3	6	0.273	0.385	0.409	0.794
Madison Bumgarner	22	4	0	0	1	1	1	5	0.182	0.217	0.318	0.535
Tyler Skaggs	20	4	0	0	0	0	2	8	0.200	0.273	0.200	0.473
Pat Dean	20	3	1	0	1	1	4	3	0.150	0.292	0.350	0.642
Hector Santiago	19	4	0	0	1	2	6	6	0.211	0.400	0.368	0.768
Chasen Shreve	11	4	2	0	1	1	2	1	0.364	0.462	0.818	1.280
Andrew Miller	10	3	0	0	0	0	2	5	0.300	0.417	0.300	0.717
Daniel Jennings	8	2	1	0	0	2	4	2	0.250	0.462	0.375	0.837
Xavier Cedeno	8	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0.375	0.333	0.375	0.708
Enny Romero	8	3	1	0	0	3	0	2	0.375	0.375	0.500	0.875
Cesar Ramos	8	1	1	0	0	0	1	3	0.125	0.222	0.250	0.472
Brian Duensing	7	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.571	0.571	0.571	1.142
Zach Duke	7	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0.429	0.429	0.571	1.000
Ashur Tolliver	6	2	0	0	1	1	1	1	0.333	0.429	0.833	1.262
Tony Sipp	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.167	0.167	0.167	0.334
Zachary Britton	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0.200	0.333	0.400	0.733
Brett Cecil	5	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0.400	0.400	0.400	0.800
Jacob Diekman	5	2	1	0	0	2	1	1	0.400	0.500	0.600	1.100
Fernando Abad	5	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.200	0.333	0.200	0.533
Aroldis Chapman	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.000	0.167	0.000	0.167
Taylor Rogers	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.250	0.250	0.500	0.750
Dana Eveland	4	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	0.250	0.500	0.250	0.750
Jeffrey Boshers	4	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	0.250	0.400	0.250	0.650
Richard Bleier	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.250	0.250	0.250	0.500
Ross Detwiler	3	1	1	0	0	1	2	1	0.333	0.500	0.667	1.167
Scott Alexander	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.333	0.333	0.333	0.666
Eric O'Flaherty	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Yu Darvish	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.000	0.333	0.000	0.333
Javier Lopez	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0.000	0.333	0.000	0.333
Aaron Loup	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Brian Flynn	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Jose Alvarez	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Vidal Nuno	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Hunter Cervenka	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Chad Girodo	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.000	1.000	0.000	1.000