For baseball fans, the All-Star Break is too long, an unending desert of baseball-less woe. For players, the break is too short, something of a truncated vacation, particularly for those who play in the Midsummer Classic.
But the flow of the calendar is undefeated, and MLB returned Friday as teams start to take stock of where they stand ahead of the trade deadline. Let’s walk through the five main on-field stories of the weekend.
Dodgers show zest, sweep Red Sox
For more than a decade now, the Dodger’s biggest superpower has been inevitability.