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The Boston Red Sox have had months like this before. They went 9-21 in August
of 2006. They went 8-21 in June of 1965 and followed that up with a 9-21 mark
in July. That was a rough year: the Sox lost 100 games. September of 1952 was
difficult, as they stumbled to a 7-20 finish. You probably don’t remember
May of 1932: Boston went 4-21, but that team was pretty execrable: It
finished 43-111, went 3-19 on one 22-game road trip, finished 64 games out of
first place and drew just 182,150 fans for the season.
But none of those months compare to this one. No way. Not when one of the
biggest collapses in baseball history is at stake, not when a team of MVP
candidates and All-Stars and a payroll approximately four times that of the
team it’s trying to fend off is on the verge of a complete disaster.
If you were like me on Monday, you were flipping back and forth between the
Red Sox-Orioles and the Yankees-Rays games. I was checking Twitter, emailing
my fellow baseball fanatic friends, taking notes and soaking in this crazy
sport we love. I was moving around more than a Tim Wakefield knuckleball. One
second, I’m watching an Orioles left fielder named Matt Angle make the worst
throw I’ve seen all season, allowing the Red Sox to score a second-inning
run. The next second, I see Tampa Bay’s hopes sink when Robinson Cano
singles in a run for the Yankees.
But in baseball, things change quickly. The Rays take a 3-2 lead, only to
blow a potential big inning when Johnny Damon and Evan Longoria are both
caught stealing