COMMENTARY
We expected nights like Wednesday. In a disorienting time of Red Sox baseball, when expectations are rapidly approaching the horizon, there is at least a sliver of positive to take from that.
These were inevitable. It’s the rest of them that make it really hurt, these two losses to a similarly lost Yankees team crystallizing just the corner into which the champs are already painted.
We’ve watched enough baseball around here to get 119-57 simply doesn’t happen, so it certainly wasn’t going to twice. Great teams play mediocre for significant stretches of baseball seasons, especially now, when the top third of the sport makes the playoffs.