By Chad Finn, Boston.com Staff

Adrian Gonzalez has never had a game as bad as his 0-for-8, three-pitches-and-sit performance against Orioles DH/closer Chris Davis Sunday, and he'll never have a day that bad again. Heck, few players in history will ever have a day that bad. It was sub-Crespoian, the full Grebeck but worse, a one-man tribute to Tony Clark's 2002 season that went way too far to make its point.

It's easy to get caught up in the misery of Gonzalez's Sunday performance and Red Sox season as a whole, in which one apparent rock-bottom moment is just a precursor to the next. And we have become caught up in it, probably sometime, oh, after his sixth out without a hit Sunday. Turn on your sports radio station of choice today and chances are you'll hear a half-dozen frustrated callers dry-roasting Gonzalez before you even hear that ubiquitous 1-877-Cars-For-Kids jingle once.