97

Nice weekend series by the Red Sox. Friday night’s game was horrible, but if you’re going to drop one of three, you might as well make it a real stinker. I might not say that if they weren’t 8-2 in their last 10.

The Yankees might be on their way to living up to some of their potential. They’ve gotten to a game over .500, but I’m not sure their pitching will hold up.

Onto Baltimore this week, where reality has hit the Orioles. They’re down to .500, in last place and all of the early season hope has gone down the drain.

Were you one of them? You know, one of the ones who thought the Sox should find a dark hole in which to deposit JD Drew? He was really bad for long stretches last year, but he’s one of their best players this year. Don’t think so? Among regulars, he has the highest batting average and on-base percentage on the team. Did you know he’s all the way up to a .318 average? I think he hovered around .218 at times last year. There’s some power there, too. The home runs are coming and so are the RBI. He got hot at the right time, with Ortiz going on the shelf for a while (at least).

The magic number to clinch the division is 97.