The Red Sox (29-28) can fall to 9.5 games back of the irrepressible Yankees (37-19) with a loss tonight in the Bronx (7:15 p.m., FOX) behind Rick Porcello, so our advice to them is to win instead, like Liverpool, who the Sox are professional aligned with, did today.
Something about this Red Sox team just feels off, though, and while I’d rather have it be this way in the spring than the summer, there’s too much talent in the A.L. East alone to keep sputtering much longer. The Red Sox need to win and they need to do it now, like Liverpool did against the dumb Spurs.