New England is lovely in the fall, with the scenic foliage and typically, post-season baseball at Fenway Park. But the Red Sox find themselves hovering just over .500, 10.5 games back of a playoff spot, with a 4.4 percent chance of making the post-season, according to Fangraphs. If the Red Sox are at home this October, it will the fourth time in five years they won’t be in the post-season, and they are in danger of having back-to-back losing seasons for just the second time in the last 25 years.
A hot July gave New Englanders some hope the Sox could make a run, but they have stumbled in August, losing seven of their last ten and are coming off a home sweep to the hands of the Astros.