COMMENTARY
By midweek, 20 percent of the Major League Baseball regular season will be in the books. Mildly crazy, given I haven’t yet won the battle to turn the house furnace off for the season.
In such a span last year, the also-ran Diamondbacks went 24-6 and the pennant-winning Yankees went 9-21. It’s time enough for a definitive stretch, but also for a hiccup on the way to something else.
The Red Sox? Last year’s perpetual .500s are . . . 16-14. They’d allowed one more run than they’d scored until Sunday, when they mashed five Guardians pitchers for 13 runs and 15 hits.