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Sports Q: Will The Red Sox Make The Playoffs? 사설토토

Sports Q Alex Cora's Red Sox club is in their most noticeably terrible stretch of the period. AP Photo/Paul Sancya 

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Unfortunately the Red Sox would in any case make the end of the season games if the season finished today thinking about how they've self-destructed in the course of the most recent few weeks. Any possibility they fix this and still make it in, or is what we saw for the initial three months of the period every one of the a hallucination? Will they make the end of the season games? – Chris B. 

I speculate I'm in the minority on this get-togethers Sox just finished a 2-8 excursion, accentuated with likely their most noticeably terrible loss of the period Sunday … yet sure, they could in any case make it in. 

How does that occur? A couple of things: 

Chris Sale, who hasn't tossed a significant class pitch since August 13, 2019 (a season wherein he went 6-11 with a 4.40 ERA), is magnificent upon his get back from Tommy John medical procedure starting with his season debut Saturday … Tanner Houck keeps on dominating now that he's having a genuine chance in the turn … The exhausted warm up area discovers its wellbeing and magic (they should deliver Hansel Robles today, incidentally) … Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, and J.D. Martinez all get hot on the double … They wake up from this funk, which remembers 11 misfortunes for their last 13 games, quickly, starting with Tuesday's series-opener against the Rays, who hold a four-game lead in the division. 

Is a portion of that conceivable? That's right. Every last bit of it? Dubious – I'm particularly worried about the warm up area, which has gotten a move on schedule and again for the disappointing beginning pivot and is unexpectedly resembling it's barely getting by. I trust Sale will be acceptable. Their best hitters will get rolling once more. 

Yet, beyond a shadow of a doubt – this has been a breakdown. On July 5, the Red Sox beat the Angels, 5-4, to move 22 games more than .500 (54-32) and take their greatest lead of the period in the American League East, 4.5 games over the Rays. The Blue Jays were 9 games back on that date, and the Yankees 10.5. 

From that point forward, the Rays have acquired 8.5 games on the Red Sox to assume control over the division lead, while the Yankees have gotten eight games on them and the Jays six. 

The Red Sox actually have the fifth-best record in the AL and would play the An's in the special case if the season finished today. Given how the season is moving, the season finishing today seems like their best any expectation of making the end of the season games. I don't believe they will arrive. It doesn't feel like the entirety of this is fixable.