"It is, but I do think a switch can be flipped," Roberts explained. "But it doesn't feel good saying that, because I think there's a certain way you go about things and each day should be equally important. "Every little play, pitch, should be equally important. How you do anything is how you do everything, that adage, I believe in that. "Again, when you're playing a long season, it's hard to be that locked in every single pitch. But I'm not going to not try to ask our guys to do that."
Trevor Story recorded the longest single-season stolen base streak for a Red Sox player since the caught stealing statistic began in 1920, having stolen 21 bases without being caught.