The Boston Red Sox cannot afford any more slipups over the next nine days. With Boston barely hanging on to the final American League Wild Card spot, every game is a playoff game for the Red Sox from here on out.

We wanted relevant September baseball in Boston, but this is not what fans were asking for, Red Sox. A team that owned a six-game edge for a playoff spot at the end of August is now only in the playoff picture by a slim margin, with Boston holding a 1.5-game lead over the red-hot Cleveland Guardians heading into Friday night's action.

There was a time when the Red Sox could have been lining up their rotation for their first playoff series in four years right now. But a 7-8 record so far in September, paired with a 13-4 surge by the Guardians, has nightmares of another late-seaso

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