The Red Sox travel to the worst stadium in baseball for three critical games against their Wild Card pursuers, the Tampa Bay Rays.
Don't look now, Nation, but Raymond and his band of slithery sting rays are only 6.5 games back of your powerhouse Carmine Hose. And tonight is the first of seven head-to-head match-ups before Bud Selig's 'tournament' begins in October. Will Boston be part of that party?
Have no fear, we're entrusting John Lackey with the first game. Five and half and counting.