Chad Tracy seems to have lost Red Sox locker room after playoff pitching decisions

It was not a good 24 hours for Boston Red Sox manager Chad Tracy.

His team was swept out of the American League playoffs in humiliating fashion, getting dominated by their biggest arch-rival, the New York Yankees.

At the center of both blowout losses were a couple of controversial pitching decisions from Tracy and when he decided to go to his bullpen.

It burned him in both games.

It also might have burned him within his own locker room.

Chad Tracy seems to have lost the Red Sox locker room

It all started in Tuesday's 9-0 loss when Tracy lifted starting pitcher Payton Tolle after just 83 pitches, when it was still only a 1-0 game.

Relief pitcher Erik Miller came in and immediately gave up a solo home run to Ben Rice, which opened the floodgates for the Yankees to roll to a 9-0 win. 

Boston still loses that game no matter what Tracy does with his bullpen, but it was still a bizarre decision to pull Tolle when he did, and the fact that it immediately flopped only adds to the frustration for the Red Sox. 

But that was nothing compared to Wednesday's decision when he lifted Sonny Gray, consistently Boston's most reliable starting pitcher all season, after just 70 pitches and with it still only being a 1-0 game. 

The bullpen again imploded on its way to a 9-2 loss, and nobody in the Boston locker room seemed to be happy about it.

Gray was especially pointed with his comments, saying he would have liked to have been trusted in that spot while also referencing that he is the best pitcher in the American League when facing a lineup for the third time.