Today the 2013 Red Sox will be honored before the game for the tenth anniversary of their championship run which helped lift the city after one of its darkest moments. They were an unlikely champion, a team cobbled together coming off a terrible year. (Sound familiar? We can only hope.) One thing burned into my mind from that year was looking over the schedule in late August when the Rays had closed to within a game and fearing that, with our respective remaining schedules, they were going to pass us and wrest away the division. But despite the Sox having the tougher remaining schedule and the Rays heading into a relatively soft stretch, the Sox pulled away and wound up not only taking the AL East but also tying the eventual NL champion Cardinals for the best record in baseball. Which led to my belief that how easy or tough a section of any team's schedule is has less to do with who they're playing but rather how they're playing.
It's a 1:35 start--Detmers versus Whitlock. Let's keep this party going!
It's a 1:35 start--Detmers versus Whitlock. Let's keep this party going!
