Six games out of first place with half a season still to play, the Pittsburgh Pirates are beginning to look like a real challenger to the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Central.
Six games out of first place with half a season still to play, the Boston Red Sox are starting to look like...what, exactly?
For most of the last two months, they've been a bad $200 million joke. Their enemies are laughing. Their fans are screaming, or looking for something else to do with the rest of the New England summer.