Three Red Sox Players Already Under Fire After Series Loss to Reds

Getting upset about the results of baseball games when the calendar still says March doesn't usually bode well for one's psyche over the next six months.

That said, there's no doubting that the Boston Red Sox's first series of the season was ripe for fan anguish. A few preventable low moments kept the Red Sox from taking at least two out of three games, and the culprits have already begun taking heat from a famously restless fan base.

Here were the three players taking the worst of the heat after Sunday's 3-2 series finale, and who all might continue to face jeers online and in person if their game doesn't turn around.

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1. 3B Caleb Durbin

The pressure of playing for the Red Sox, even on the road, is a lot harsher than that of the Milwaukee Brewers. And Durbin, who once played Division III college ball, might understandably have been putting extra pressure on himself to deliver in his first weekend in the uniform of one of baseball's signature franchises.

Fortunately, 12 at-bats makes up about 2% of a baseball season, so Durbin has a long, long time to turn things around. But because Red Sox fans are Red Sox fans, there were already people ready to take his job away, though that would be a calamitous overreaction.