The Boston Globe - 07.08.2019

Dan Shaughnessy

Sports

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TVHIGHLIGHTS

Baseball: Braves-Twins, 1 p.m., MLB
Baseball: Royals-Red Sox, 7:10 p.m., NESN
Baseball: Phillies-Diamondbacks, 10 p.m., MLB
Listings,C6

New-lookCeltics

Rookies Edwards, Williams throw

out first pitch at Fenway.C3

Olesensuspended

European Tour investigates golfer’s

sexual assaultcharges.C7

Drawingonexperience

Addazio (above)and his coaching

staff like what they see at BC.C7

INSIDE

BARRY CHIN/GLOBESTAFF

Sox’ downturn may cost Dombrowski

Picked-up pieces
while planning a rare
October vacation...
RI’ll be shocked if
Dave Dombrowski is
back with the Red
Sox next season. Bos-
ton’s president of
baseball operations
has increasingly isolated himself with
pals Frank Wren and Tony La Russa

and has few friends inside Fenway’s

walls. Dombrowski is under contract

for just one more season.

When you have the top payroll in

baseball and don’t make the playoffs,

somebody has to go. Alex Cora isn’t

going anywhere. Dombrowski has

been exactly what we thought he

would be. He delivered a champion-

ship.But he gets the blame for the

Chris Sale and Nathan Eovaldi con-

tracts and for failing to address the

bullpen need. He’s clearly not the guy

to oversee a much-needed farm system

rebuild.

Candidate to replace Dombrowski:

Eddie Romero.

RHope we’ve heardthe last of the

annual fake news story on our sports

calendar: Tom Brady’s contract. The

man is 42. He’s infinitely wealthy. He

is the fifth Kraft son. He is never going

to play for another team. He is never

going to hold out. He is your quarter-

back until he and the Krafts agree that

it’s over. And his level of compensation

will never be commensurate with his

contributions to the franchise — not

until he eventually gets a piece of the

teamorwhateverpost-retirementdeal

he strikes with ownership.

RFans who don’t think Bill Parcells

should be in the Patriots Hall of Fame

are irrational, immature, or just too

young to know anything.

The Krafts want you to think they

are the ones who turned the franchise

around. No. Everything changed when

Parcells was hired by then-owner

James Orthwein. Parcells delivered in-

stant credibility and got a 2-14 team

into a Super Bowl in four seasons. He

brought Bill Belichick to New Eng-

land. He drafted Lawyer Milloy, Tedy

Bruschi, Ty Law, Curtis Martin, and

Willie McGinest.

Parcells left on bad terms after

Kraft betrayed him, instructing Bobby

Grier to make a first-round draft pick

behind Parcells’s back.

Ask yourselves this, Parcells haters:

How would Belichick have handled

things if Kraft ordered Nick Caserio to

overrule Belichick on draft day —

without informing Belichick of what

SHAUGHNESSY, PageC5

Deep trouble

Cashner allows

3 HRsas Sox lose

Royals manager Ned Yost has seen a lot in
baseball, enoughthat he simultaneously can ex-
press surprise and familiarity with the predica-
ment of the Red Sox’ sudden descent into a vor-
tex.
Entering 2016,Yost and the Royals sat atop
the baseball world.Over several years, the Roy-
als had progressed from a perennialdoormat to
a contender to a surprise pennant winnerin
2014 to finally a champion in 2015.
And so, in 2016, Kansas City was elated
about mounting a title defense. The team gave
no real thought to breaking up an elite core of
position players, and indeed, stretched its bud-
get to re-sign free-agent outfielder Alex Gordon
to a four-year, $72 million deal.
Emboldened with the thought of repeating
as champions, the Royals instead sputtered.Af-
ter a slightly-better-than-sideways 29-22 start,
ONBASEBALL,PageC6

Patriots

driving

home ’18

road woes

By Nora Princiotti

GLOBE STAFF

ALLENPARK, Mich. — In a pre-

practice speech Monday morning,

Bill Belichick reminded the Patriots

that theirtrip to Michiganfor joint

practices and a preseasongamewith

the Lionswas a chance to practice

beingon the roadas a team,some-

thingthey struggled with in 2018.

The Patriots were 3-5 in the regu-

lar season on the road. Ford Field,

site of the first preseason game on

Thursday, was also the site of one of

thoselosseslast year.

“Itwasanareaweweren’tvery

good in last year. I think there’s a lot

of components to that, but the bot-

tom line was we weren’t a very good

road team at all, and that’s impor-

tant in this league,” Belichick said.

“You’re not going to last very long

whenyou can’t play .500 on the road

or better.”

There’s a differencebetween a

weekof jointpractices and a regular-

seasongame, of course.Practices are

in the morning, not in prime time,

and the starters will see at most a se-

ries or two on Thursday. Still,

Belichick felt it was worth bringing

up the fact that the teamis away

fromthe comforts of home.

Last year, after those road losses,

PATRIOTS, PageC2

By Matt Porter

GLOBE STAFF

Royals 6

Red Sox2

When the Red Sox traded for An-

drew Cashner, they werehoping

the burlyrighthander would rep-

licate the success he had in Baltimore over the

first 3½ months of the season.

Cashner, who went 4-15 with a 5.29 ERA last

year, openedthis season9-3 with a 3.83 ERA in

17 starts with the Orioles. If he wasn’t that guy,

the Red Sox were betting that he wouldn’t slip

back to 2018level.

He’s slipping and sliding, and after Tuesday’s

6-2 loss to the Royals, he was lamenting “one of

the toughest stretches of my career.”

Dave Dombrowski’s loneJuly acquisition

gave up a season-high three homers over 5‚ in-

nings, eachone of them hammered out of the

yard.

The Red Sox (60-56), losersof nineof their

last 10, are six games back of Tampa Bay in the

wild-card race. Boston fell to four games over

.500. In the heat of August, the Red Sox are ar-

REDSOX, PageC4

JIM DAVIS/GLOBESTAFF

Andrew Cashnertriesto regroupafter Jorge Soler’s first homerof the nightgave the Royals a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning.

Alex Speier

ONBASEBALL

Royals’ demise

a history lesson

JIM DAVIS/GLOBE STAFF

Red Sox secondbasemanMichaelChavis divesbut

can’t preventHunter Dozier’s RBI single in the sixth.

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