OldSchoolScoreFan wrote:
This is the kind of series that can start a major slide. It also could be a series that if they finish 2 games out at the end of the year where we look back and think....shit, they lost 3 of 4 to Tampa when Tampa was playing well.
Tampa's going to be playing well all season. That team is going to be an 85+ win team.
I'd like to see the Sox beat a good team sometime, especially on the road. They've handled Cleveland well, which is good, but my memory tells me they've struggled against the better teams in the AL. They'll have to show that they can beat some of those teams.
I also don't really have much hope that the offense will get a whole lot better. We've been waiting for the offense to turn it around for a year and a half now- after a while, you just have to conclude that it's going to be a mediocre offense. That might be enough though if the pitching holds up.
They did beat the Rays on the road in a series already. The last team to win a series against the Rays at home.