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This is the baseball hour with Tony Mazz.

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On Boston's Home for Sports, 985 the sports hub you go a chance to pick

him up and to rip that one toward the alley that's going to bring in another run ridugo his second rbi

heading in the second he slides in safely with a double. Sox now lead at 7 to 3.

Boy, hustle double there by Verdugo. Line drive, left field. He just kept going.

One of the many hits by the Red Sox last night in a pounding of the Chicago White Sox in Chicago.

The Red Sox take two out of three.

Now four out in the lost column for that second wildcard

spot. Four games out. The division's still a long way away.

But see, I look at the division this way, Matt McCarthy, who joins us here on

the baseball hour, as he does every Friday. And now let me just say, 617-7790985.

We'll take your calls on anything and everything Red Sox and baseball related this hour.

And we're going to begin with something that Matt McCarthy wants to admit,

because we believe in admitting mistakes here on 98 five sure do I do it all the time

mass okay we upstanding person and we have to because we make a million of them so but I'll say

this as a pertains of the Red Sox and the division if the Yankees run away and hide in other words

if the Yankees go out and win let's call it it, 102 games, well, you weren't getting to that number anyway. Okay, like I said at the beginning of the year, I thought the Red Sox were a playoff team. It was a hard division, but could they win, you know, 90 plus games and get in with the extra playoffs, but yes, and the season should be considered a failure if they don't make the playoffs.

Then they got off to the start, rather than they got off to, and basically buried themselves,

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