After a disappointing but not quite disastrous road trip, the outlook among Red Sox fans has slipped slightly over the past few days. While a 2-4 southwestern swing to San Diego and Houston won’t kill you, the Sox probably should have found a way to come home 3-3 given there were loses that involved a big Roman Antony double to tie the game in the ninth inning on Saturday and a Garrett Crochet start in which they scored six runs on Monday. If they managed to grab just one of those games, we all probably feel a little better about the team this morning.

However, in the grand scheme of things, skies are already clearing. The Red Sox just completed a 24-game stretch coming out of the All-Star break in which they played 15 of 24 on the road, and 18 of 24 against teams with better records than

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