The Red Sox have won 14 of their last 16 games, and are coming off their first 9-0 road trip since Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk, and Butch Hobson were walloping their way around the American League in the summer of 1977.
It’s a lousy time for the All-Star break, with the Red Sox in the midst of a surge many, if not most of us did not expect to see this season. But it’s a super time for some superlatives.
Will recency bias — and their now-over-50-percent chance to make the playoffs, per baseball-reference — lead us to being more positive than we should be about a team with a 46-48 record?
Let’s find out!
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