BOSTON -- If there was one moment last season when the Boston Red Sox began to prove they were very much for real, it was their 35th game -- on the 12th night in May -- when they opened a series at Fenway Park by putting an 11-1 beating on the Houston Astros and defending Cy Young Award winner Dallas Keuchel.
Suffice it to say, this isn't going to be like last season.
That couldn't have been clearer Friday night. In their 35th game -- on May 12, no less -- the Sox sent their reigning Cy Young winner to the mound in a series-opener at Fenway.