Over the last 33 games, the Red Sox are a blah 17-16. In that same span, the Yanks are an even blah-er 16-17. Both teams have suspect bullpens (hey Yanks fans, which is worse: subtracting Joba or retaining Hawkins?). Injury problems that have beset the Yankees all year have caught up to the Red Sox with a recent Dice K hiccup.
Odds are this trend won't continue past the All-Star break and both teams will be back in the hunt. The Yanks are only two games under .500 and the Sox are only a half game behind the juggernaut Rays.
But right now both teams are in unfamiliar territory: irrelevance. Maybe interleague play, which heats up next month, will shake things up? The Yanks were 10-8 and the Sox 12-6 against the senior circuit last year.
--Whittle