Reading helps Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke through tough 2020

BOSTON --- How has Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke coped with the club’s 12-24 start?

He’s had help from some of his favorite authors.

Roenicke is an avid reader and has spoken previously about walking from the team hotel to local bookstores in road cities. Vince Flynn and Louis L’Amour are two of his personal favorites, specializing in political thrillers and Western novels, respectively.

"By the time I get home and I open up a book my mind can [...]

BOSTON --- How has Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke coped with the club’s 12-24 start?

He’s had help from some of his favorite authors.

Roenicke is an avid reader and has spoken previously about walking from the team hotel to local bookstores in road cities. Vince Flynn and Louis L’Amour are two of his personal favorites, specializing in political thrillers and Western novels, respectively.

"By the time I get home and I open up a book my mind can go straight to what I’m reading," Roenicke said. "I read for however long I want to – it could be a half hour, it could be a couple hours – and then lights off and I’m fine. I’m asleep."

That leisure time helps take Roenicke away from grim reality at the ballpark. A look at the American League East standings Wednesday night on the Green Monster showed Boston sitting 12½ games behind the Rays in the division.

"I stare straight across the pitcher and I look out to the left field line and I see us sitting in last place," Roenicke said. "Every day that bothers me. I don’t like that at all."

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