You can’t usually score if you can’t put the ball in play, and the Boston Red Sox have been struggling to do that all season. The Red Sox have 766 strikeouts, the third-most of any team in Major League Baseball this season. On Wednesday, they were swept by the team with the most, the Los Angeles Angels, in a three-game series that marked a crushing end to their playoff hopes. In this latest atrocious performance, the Red Sox scored two hard-earned runs in the first inning and made Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi throw 31 pitches.