After tonight's rubber match with the Tigers, Boston will have 21 games left in their 2013 season.
Seven of those games (or exactly 33.3%) will be against
The Bronx Embalmers. Keep in mind that if the Red Sox lose tonight and the Yankees win, they will trail Boston by—you guessed it—seven games. Which is why it will be important to disabuse
The Pinstriped Posers of
any notion that they can have a miracle comeback (fueled mostly by
The Fradulent One's return). Interestingly,
Ryan Dempster will not be in the Sox rotation for the four-game series at
The Concrete Bunker On 161st Street. Coincidence?