Oddity I cannot explain.
Right now The Yankees, DRays and Red Sox are within a game of each other. In fact New York and Boston have 43 wins each and Tampa Bay one back at 42 victories.
The Oddity is The Yankees are 18-9 in day games, the DRays are 11-8 during the day and Boston is 6-12 when playing day games..On top of that Boston is 1-7 in extra innings compared to 1-1 for The Yanks and 4-2 for Tampa.
Boston is not as bad as they usually are on the road 17-13 and 26-15 at Fenway plus 14-5 in June.
Victor Martinez is red hot, hitting .383 in June.
David Ortiz has relegated Mike Lowell to cheer leader with his sizzling month of May when in 23 games, Ortiz hit .363 (29-80) with four doubles, 10 home runs, 16 runs scored and 27 RBI. The 34-year-old also posted a Major League-best .788 slugging percentage and a .424 on-base percentage. Big Papi reached base safely in 21 of his 23 games in May, including nine multi-hit performances and eight multi-RBI outings. On May 14th versus the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park, David earned his 36th career multi-homer game and his 34th with the Red Sox, ranking him third in club history behind Hall of Famers Ted Williams (37) and Jim Rice (35).
In Boston's final game of May, the five-time A.L. All-Star hit his 10th home run, reaching double-figures in a month for the first time since August 2006. That home run, which led the Red Sox to an 8-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals, was the final base hit of his eight-game hitting streak to finish the month of May, marking his longest streak since April 2009. This marks David's fourth career Player of the Month Award (last accomplished: September 2007). He edged out a red hot Vlad Guerrero to win the May Award.
Ortiz started off June slowly but over the last week he is hitting .353 with 3 homers, 8 RBI a .882 SLG and an amazing 1.420 OPS.
May wasn't bad for Jon Lester either as he won AL Pitcher of The Month by posting a perfect 5-0 record in six outings during May, the big lefty allowed just 24 hits through 44.0 innings of work while leading the Majors with 45 strikeouts.
The 26-year-old also posted a 1.84 ERA, the lowest of any A.L. pitcher with more than 27 innings pitched. Lester earned a 6-2 win for the Red Sox in his 100th career start on May 20th against Minnesota at Fenway Park, allowing only one earned run on six hits in the complete-game effort. It marked Jon's fifth career complete game and the first time a Sox pitcher has earned a complete-game win with no walks and at least nine strikeouts since Pedro Martinez accomplished the feat on August 12, 2004.
On May 25th, the second-round selection in the 2002 First-Year Player Draft fanned nine and combined with his bullpen on a one-hitter against the Rays. The southpaw's five wins in May boosted his career record to 48-18, and his .727 winning percentage is the best in M.L.-history (since 1901) among pitchers with at least 50 decisions and the ninth-best winning percentage ever through a pitcher's first 100 starts. This marks Jon's third Pitcher of the Month honor (last accomplished: September 2008).
I am going to stop here, it's no wonder the BoSox made up for such a diastrous start in April when a lot of fans were calling for Theo's scalp.
None of this IMO however sheds any light on the 6-12 day record except perhaps they played a lot of day games in April.
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