For the past week or so I've been saying that we are in the midst of one of the most impressive stretches of baseball I can remember ever seeing the Boston Red Sox play. At 92-59 they're now 33 games over .500, the highest they've been since the end of 2004 (remember 2004?) when they finished 98-64. In their last 25 games the Sox are 19-6, and have outscored their opponents by more than double, 163-79. It's been a full month exactly since Boston last had a losing streak (August 15 and 16), and they have won 8 consecutive series. But the thing that really stands out to me is how well they are playing against good teams, 6 of the past 7 of those series wins have come vs playoff contenders. They swept all three games with Chicago (the lone bad team they've played), took 2 of 3 from the Dodgers and Tigers (division leaders), and also 2 out of 3 from Wild Card hopefuls Tampa and Baltimore. Oh yeah, and they just finished beating the Yankees 6 times in 7 tries as well. Those 14 wins in series victories over their last six playoff caliber opponents are 3 more than the 11 it's going to take for Boston to win the World Series.
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