For the past two weeks, the Red Sox have been the embodiment of the meme \u201chow it started vs. how it\u2019s going.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a 10-17 start to the season and the firing<\/a> of Alex Cora, it had seemed until recently that this was bound to be a year to forget in Boston. <\/p>\n But if the beginning of the season was all rainclouds, July has been almost nothing but summer sunshine. The team has only lost one game all month, and is currently on a 13-game win streak, tying<\/a> the second longest such mark in franchise history. <\/p>\n Speaking outside Fenway Park Monday, Red Sox fan James Clark described it as night and day. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been incredible. I never imagined that they\u2019d go on a streak like this,\u201d Clark said. \u201cBut I\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n Right now, Clark believes a realistic goal for the team is to make the playoffs. If the postseason started today, Boston would have the third AL Wild Card<\/a> slot. <\/p>\n The turnaround is partly due to the fact that the offense finally looks alive. If you look at the season as a whole, the Red Sox have 413 total<\/a> runs \u2014 \u201cmeh\u201d by MLB standards. <\/p>\n But in the month of July, the team has been near the top<\/a> in runs across both leagues. And pitching-wise, the Red Sox staff has posted<\/a> a blistering 2.34 ERA for the month so far. Hot enough to start a barbecue in most ballparks.<\/p>\n The turnaround has made the trip to Fenway much happier for fans like Doug Evans.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m from Los Angeles, moved there in 1964, kept the Red Sox my whole life, bought these tickets for a trip like two months ago and thinking, like, \u2018Hey, it\u2019s just going to be the bad Red Sox, and we\u2019re gonna go there to see Fenway and it won\u2019t be that exciting,\u2019\u201d Evans said. \u201cNow, it\u2019s very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n For Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy, whose squad is two consecutive victories away from tying the team\u2019s all-time mark of 15 straight wins set by the Ted Williams-era Sox in 1946<\/a>, it\u2019s all business. <\/p>\n \u201cI won\u2019t shy away from what we\u2019re doing is pretty incredible and it\u2019s a fun ride and we want to keep it going, but focused on tomorrow and get ready to play again tomorrow,\u201d Tracy said<\/a> after the team\u2019s win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. <\/p>\n Boston hosts the first leg of a three-game homestand tonight against the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past two weeks, the Red Sox have been the embodiment of the meme \u201chow it started…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-774427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}