The three moments that left the Red Sox pitching weak, and doomed to failure

Tanner Houck's scary and unlucky injury caused the Red Sox' bullpen to be overused through much of the summer.COMMENTARY

Are you enjoying one of the worst Septembers in Red Sox franchise history?

That’s saying something, as we’ve seen some doozies just in the plenty successful modern era. The collapse of 2011’s “Best Team Ever,” with seven starting pitchers all unable to produce an ERA under 5.00. The fork-in-the-back 2012 bunch under Bobby Valentine, who were actually worse by record — 7-22, to the prior year’s 7-20. The mutiny bunch of 2001 under miscast fill-in Joe Kerrigan. The last-place double of 2019-2020.

These Red Sox might outdo them all on the raw numbers. After Brayan Bello’s egg…