The Red Sox are a team stuck in the mediocre middle.
Their high point this season is three games over .500. The low point is three games under. Generally they are somewhere in between.
They’re not a bad team, just a blah one. The players seem to know it, too.
Most were scrolling through their phones while slumped in a chair in front of their locker and avoiding eye contact after a 10-4 loss against the Braves on Sunday.
Rafael Devers was purposeful, at least. He was quick to get dressed and leave Fenway Park after turning down a request to discuss the game.
Devers is the only player left in the room who knows what it feels like to win a championship in Boston. But absent his having a particularly big game, he has left it to others to represent the team this season.
“You just have to trust the process and keep going,’’ catcher Connor Wong said. “You can’t really think too much about it. That’s probably going to make it worse.’’
Wong thought the Red Sox would catch a breeze when Devers hit a walkoff home run Saturday night. Instead Brayan Bello allowed seven runs on 10 hits and five walks over 4 innings.
His lack of command negated a grand slam by Devers in the third inning.
With the Sox leading, 4-3, Bello allowed three consecutive two-out singles in the fourth inning as Atlanta tied the game.
Bello got ahead of Marcell Ozuna 0-2 to open the fifth inning and threw four pitches in a row well off the plate to walk him.
“That was the at-bat of the game,’’ Sox manager Alex Cora said.
Drake Baldwin followed with a single and Ozzie Albies drew a walk after being down 1 and 2.
Bello then walked Michael Harris II on four pitches to force in the go-ahead run. Eli White followed with an RBI single and Nick Allen with a sacrifice fly.
That ended the outing for Bello, who has put 55 batters on base over 31 innings in six starts. That his earned run average is 4.02 is a product of good fortune, not good pitching.
“My changeup is my second-best pitch and I haven’t been able to locate it,’’ Bello said via a translator. “For me, that’s a big issue. . . . That’s a pitch I used for strikeouts and for hitters to chase.’’
Before the game, Cora said Bello had to be more aggressive in the strike zone. But it was just the opposite as Bello took another step backward.
The righthander has a 4.55 ERA in 36 starts since agreeing to a six-year, $55 million contract extension before last season.
Ozuna added a two-run homer in the eighth inning off former Brave Sean Newcomb as Atlanta won for the ninth time in its last 12 games at Fenway. By then, many in the crowd of 35,012 were booing.
Or leaving. Or both.
The 23-25 Sox are 12-11 at Fenway with losses in seven of their last 11 games.
Atlanta starter Spencer Schwellenbach (3-3) allowed four runs on six hits over seven innings for the win. He retired 14 of the last 16 batters he faced after Devers’s grand slam.
Devers added a double in the eighth inning. He is 24 of 57 (.421) in the last 15 games with eight extra-base hits and 16 RBIs.
“Raffy has been amazing,’’ Wong said. “You think we’re going to get rolling and then today happens. There’s plenty of talent here. We just have to get going.’’
Cora has grown tired of hearing that the Sox should be better.
“It has felt like this for three weeks, but it doesn’t matter,’’ he said. “The record is the record. There’s no moral victories, right?
“We lost the game. We’ve got to finish innings; we’ve got to finish at-bats; we have to get better. Does it feel like we’re way off? No. But it’s another loss in the column.’’
The Sox host the Mets for a three-game series starting on Monday night. Rookie Hunter Dobbins will face Kodai Senga.
Peter Abraham can be reached at peter.abraham@globe.com.