The Magic Number is three.
No, not a playoff magic number. I mean there are only 3 people on the Red Sox' lineup right now who haven't hit more than 10 home runs right now. And they're Jackie Bradley, Eduardo Nunez and Christian Vazquez.
Everyone else, save for Rafael Devers, is hitting over .250. Including 2 players, J.D. Martinez and Mookie Betts, hitting over .300.
Even as a Yankee fan, I have to stop and say...Holy Shit.
You look across the board in Boston, in terms of the batting and pitching, and with only a few exceptions...everybody's doing really well. It's the kind of team unity that helped them out in 2013--they were all the same page, they all grew beards together and everything. Now...they're all really good at hitting home runs and stopping the Blue Jays from scoring runs.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the guys who are surging is Andrew Benintendi, who, after his come up season last year, is finally producing like a veteran, and bringing in hits for average, alongside all of the home runs. But there are a lot of no-brainers playing well. Mookie Betts, Chris Sale, J.D. Martinez, Craig Kimbrel. They're all showing very few signs of fatigue, and only getting stronger as the season goes on.
The only snag I can see in the Red Sox' plan is, once again, the Yankees. They're just as good as the Sox are, and at times they're a bit luckier. Right now they're in first, but knowing the Sox it may be insanely short-lived. The Sox need to figure out how to outlast the Yankees, because at this point it may just be the two of them until the very end. Once they figure out how to completely stifle them, then they might be in the clear.
Coming Tonight: Pre-season, he cut off his long hair and pissed me off, as I had adopted long hair as a tribute to him. Whatever, he's still a great pitcher or something.
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