Let’s start with this:
There you go, that’s the 2022 Red Sox. I don’t think I will ever quite wrap my head around that June and July. Draw a trend line on this graph and you get a literal roller coaster.
What a peak: 20 wins in 29 days. At the time, we thought a lot of it was a result of a soft schedule. That’s true to a degree, but now that the dust has settled, it turns out that 8 of those 20 wins came against postseason teams.