Another year, another chance for Red Sox to turn a something first half into something lasting

Ceddanne Rafaela and the Red Sox won their final 10 games before the All-Star break, going from below .500 into a wild-card position.COMMENTARY

Credit to NESN for not using the four-day All-Star break to air two dozen replays of the Ceddanne Rafaela Walkoff Game. Would’ve been an easy call. The moment this hot streak became more than just kicking around National League chaff. The cherry on a 10-win sundae.

I’m trying not to be too wet a blanket here, given both the humidity and this year’s efficiency at obliterating joy. The thing the Red Sox had cooking to end last weekend does smell unmistakably like last summer, though, when Jarren Duran’s team went 10-3 into him winning All-Star MVP in…