COMMENTARY
The baseball season is a six-month search for context, and the Red Sox aren’t making that part of the process easy. Been fun to watch, though.
They were not as bad as the 0-3 start would suggest, nor are they as good as the 112-win pace they’re on after a nine-game winning streak — ended at Minnesota, 4-3, on Thursday despite a three-run comeback in the eighth. The last team to do anything like this, as you may have heard, was the 1991 Seattle Mariners, who opened 0-6, then won eight in a row.