COMMENTARY
As Yogi Berra once supposedly articulated, and Red Sox fans echoed when their team tumbled back to the flat ground of .500 last weekend, “it’s getting late early” in this 2019 season.
Certainly it’s true that there are essentially four full months of baseball still to be played, and that after capping off a sweep of the wretched Royals on Thursday afternoon, the Red Sox have exactly 100 games still to go. But along the route to 33-29, Boston has played itself into a position where any hiccups could really hurt, and where there’s enough urgency that what happens over the rest of June could define the direction this club is headed.