When baseball resumes on Friday, the Red Sox will be six games back in the wild card race. In the wild card era, here are the teams that have made up a deficit that large on the morning of July 17.
– The 2007 Yankees were 6.5 games out of the wild card on the morning of July 17, finished the year an MLB-best 47-24 and won the wild card.
– The 2006 Twins were 6.5 out of the wild card, finished the year 46-26 — percentage points off the MLB best — and ended up making up an 11-game deficit to win the AL Central.