COMMENTARY
Three Red Sox thoughts while reminding myself that the feeling the season is slipping through their fingers in mid-August would actually have been a positive in February . . .
The curse of Zach Eflin
The things on which we build defining narratives can be quite spongy. I thought of that again Thursday when the Red Sox were undone during their series opener in Baltimore by Zach Eflin.
Again.
Eflin, you may recall, was a free-agent target of Chaim Bloom during the winter of 2022, following seven years with Philadelphia.