COMMENTARY
The 2022 Red Sox can’t depart the stage quickly enough. Let’s not get in their way.
“We’re just trying to make the best of it right now, honestly. . . . I feel like we’re honestly playing more relaxed,” J.D. Martinez told NESN Thursday afternoon, after his 14th home run beat Baltimore.
“More relaxed” not the best sound when in the following two days Toronto outscored them, 19-0, on the way to a sweep, but at least we don’t have to wonder what might have been.
The playoff field is all but set in MLB, so let’s embark on that annual tradition of the outsiders: Finding reasons to draw ourselves back in the circle.