The Red Sox are 85-35. Eighty-five wins. Thirty-five losses. Fifty games over .500.
That kind of success looks downright strange on the page. It seems unfathomable that a team could accumulate 85 wins by mid-August.
We’ve been fortunate to watch some extraordinary baseball teams here in Boston, especially since the turn of the new millennium — I believe the 2007 World Champs were the most complete of the lot — but we’ve seen nothing during the regular season quite like this. Few fan bases have.
The 2018 Red Sox are at the point now where you can start to play what-if games with their record.