COMMENTARY
The 2024 Red Sox home opener will be the last in Major League Baseball this season, every other team having rolled out the bunting and the bombast before Boston does it Tuesday.
The team certainly made the most of the runup, Sunday’s clobbering of the Angels capping a 7-3 West Coast trip. Those don’t come around often — in the wild-card era, the only better three-city Pacific runs came in 2022 (8-2) and 1995 (8-3). To begin a season out there? Nothing close. (Hard to forget the 3-8 start to the title defense in 2019, given the franchise is still clawing about in the hole.