After winning two games against the Kansas City Royals to take what was probably the biggest series of the season to date, the Red Sox had the opportunity to make a statement this past weekend at Fenway Park against a surging Houston club.
They...did not make that statement. Well I suppose they did make a statement, if you count a three-day long wet fart as one.
An ugly sweep at the hands of the Astros puts Boston right back behind the eight-ball in the Wild Card chase. Yordan Alvarez continued to haunt this organization — shades of October 2021.