Interesting race the Red Sox and Yankees are having. Boston leads the American East and is on pace to win 114 games. New York is in second place, on a trajectory for 101 victories.
Two likely 100-win powerhouses. Bitter division rivals. That’s probably never happened before right?
Darren Lewis, a Berkeley native who played college baseball at Cal, wishes it hadn’t. Let’s set the Way Back Machine to 1993. The Giants, under first-year manager Dusty Baker and featuring free agent acquisition Barry Bonds, got off to a torrid start. The Atlanta Braves, at the dawn of an era that would see them earn 13 postseason berths in 14 years, got off to a semi-torrid start.