Unstoppable Boston Red Sox Face Struggling Athletics

Boston hasn't lost a game, it feels like, in a month, but they did play until the wee hours of the morning last night, 13 ridiculous innings, where the White Sox just could not put them away. They come back, they end up winning it now. They welcome in the Athletics, who very much, Craig and I have talked all week, Craig believes when it's all said and done, the Athletics are going to have the worst record in Major League Baseball, and it is very hard to argue with that there, Scotty. Yeah, you talk about a game that you say, Joe, how is this not going to happen, right? And this is it for me. How is Boston not winning? You have the hottest team in baseball against the coldest team in baseball, and the hottest team is at home, and the hottest team has a decent pitcher on the hill, the other team has a 2-7 Jack Perkins on the hill. I mean, the Red Sox, I watched the game last night, 31-5 their last 36 games, 16-4 last 20 at Fenway Park, 17-3 since the All-Star break. They've won eight in a row overall. I mean, it just goes on and on and on with this team. It's just unbelievable. It really is a turnaround. The A's, on the other hand, 7-32 their last 39 games, 4-15 since the All-Star break, including eight straight losses. Tole's a lefty, so what? The A's are 16 games under 500 against lefties, only nine against righties. I mean, they suck against everybody, but they're especially bad against lefties. There's just nothing that says A's tonight or in this series, but you watch them win one of these games. Yeah, listen, eight and a half is the total here. I just don't know how the athletics are getting on the board. Perkins and Tole, they faced one another last time, I believe, at Sacramento, and both guys did a really good job of limiting both lineups, so no reason to think that we're going to get some sort of crazy 13-12 game again tonight. Feels like fewer runs, not more.