There are a lot more games to play, but we can still react (and hopefully not overreact) to the first three we saw from the Boston Red Sox this weekend.
In losing two of three games to the Cincinnati Reds, both by just one run, the Red Sox demonstrated that they have a winning formula, but also a lot of potential pitfalls. It was a series that felt a lot like last year’s early-season malaise, and the Red Sox would do well to stamp out a lot of their bad habits quickly.
But given that we have so much more baseball still to play, how can one decipher what truly mattered from that series? These are the things we think truly mattered, versus the ones that were small-sample theater.
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