Red Sox Come Home In A Race To The Finish

Baseball has just seven games left in its regular season. Seven games to decide who will be playing playoff baseball after October 2 and who will be playing golf after the same date. In the A.L. East -- the only division that truly matters in these parts -- the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees are tied for first place with identical 91-64 records. With a race for the division title and a trip to the postseason on the line (they both trail the 92-64 Indians in the Wild Card), the 2005 season will literally come down to the final days. The Red Sox have four games with the Toronto Blue Jays while the Yankees have four with the Baltimore Orioles and then both teams will meet head-to-head over the final three games to decide who plays on and who goes home. And the biggest difference is that the Red Sox will spend the final week of the regular season playing at Fenway Park and the Yankees have to travel to Baltimore and Boston. Make no mistake about it, the fact that the Sox are at home (where they are a MLB best 50-24) and teh Yanks are on the road (where they are 38-36) will be the deciding factor in the pennant race. The difference between playing at home instead of on the road will give Boston their first A.L. East title since 1995. The Yankees will be done, out of the playoffs for the first time since the same year (when they won the inaugural Wild Card). Just how TheBostonInsider predicted!