This will be it for the prelims. This is it for the undercard. The next time the Yankees and the Red Sox meet will be September, and by then we’ll have a lot better idea of how this American League East will shake out. By then, there will be a whiff of October in the air even as the calendar insists it’s a few weeks early for that.
By then we will be able to retire the qualifier, “There’s still a lot of season left.”
For now we have these four games across the next four days and nights at Fenway Park, and by weekend’s end the teams will retreat to their corners to regroup and plot out the final dash to the finish line.