COMMENTARY
We’re going to get a little arcane today, because the Red Sox have done nothing to force us to look too close. Two wins, two losses. Nine runs, 10 runs, then opportunities wasted and no runs. Team goes up, team goes down. Playoff odds go up, playoff odds go down.
The long view is better, as Alex Speier pointed out in the Globe specifically about the starting pitching. The short view is, largely by necessity, Justin Garza and Brandon Walter made their major-league debuts on Thursday to fill the hole left by Tanner Houck.