COMMENTARY
Suffice to say, the puzzle has started to fall together for the Red Sox even if it’s taken a shape few of us expected. Despite Shohei Ohtani outclassing them again on Thursday, Boston has still won 16 of 22 — baseball’s best team since May 18.
That this has gained them almost no ground in division, the Yankees (14-7), Rays (12-8), and Blue Jays (13-6) on their heels in the same period, is a heck of a thing, and seems like a potential wakeup call when AL East play resumes. (Somehow that’s still two weeks off, Boston’s next series in Toronto beginning June 27.