COMMENTARY
Change sure can come fast in baseball. Good times that seem to come easy for weeks suddenly turn fleeting. As a fan, you start to anticipate the worst, and the players’ series faces cannot mask the truth: they’re right there stressing along with you. Then the prophecy self-fulfills, a rut becomes a full-on collapse, and it seems like it will never end until the season ends.
The Red Sox won a baseball game Saturday. It’s true. They beat the Blue Jays, 2-1, to earn a split of a doubleheader. I mention this because right now, it feels like the Sox haven’t won a game since, oh, the third week of May.