The Red Sox are 6-1 and have gotten there via generally excellent pitching and the timely hitting of Hanley Ramirez and Xander Bogaerts, mostly, leading to general speculation that the latter two -- Bogaerts especially -- are “back.” I think it’s far too early to say as much, less for the sake of being a buzzkill than the sake of being consistent but yeah, a little of both.
It is seductive to read long-term trends into eight days’ worth of performance. I have done it with the offense in general, and I was probably wrong.