“I think we can start gearing up for the playoffs,” first baseman Tom Paciorek said after a thrashing of the Kansas City Royals. “I don’t see us slumping off.”
Sox manager Tony La Russa didn’t want to think that far ahead. A Tribune report said La Russa was “finding himself at a loss for words these days because his team is winning and he doesn’t want to break the spell by saying the wrong thing.”
La Russa has come full circle 38 years later, managing a Sox team with a double-digit lead in the American League Central and September on the doorstep.