Games 154 and 155: If you can't win, you might as well be annoying

On Saturday, Jon Lester and the Red Sox beat the Yankees again, 7-3, but the coup de grace, sadly, was lacking, as the Sunday night special gave us Jonathan Papelbon giving up a 3-2 lead in the ninth, followed by the Okey Doke walking in the winning run in the tenth.

For the deluded few who are still concerned with such things, the Red Sox trail the Yankees by 7 games with 7 to play, and trail a playoff spot by 6 1/2 games with those same 7 games to play. It looks like it was over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, after all.