Heading into last weekend, the Boston Red Sox were not in a good spot. The team was was 6-13, losers of three games in a row, and staring at a huge series with the first place Tampa Bay Rays. If the Rays were to win two of three, or even sweep the Sox, Boston would have been 11 games out of first place less than a month into the season. There would be plenty of time to play catch up, of course, but as our friends at Over the Monster put it, “eleven is a lot of games.
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