Of Feast and Famine with the Red Sox

All the Red Sox needed to do this past weekend was win one game. A frustrating inability to capitalize on Yankees losses while they played in Toronto was in the past. For the time being, injuries to the starting rotation seemed surmountable, at least for one game. One game, and they'd at least tread water in the division as well as in the Wild Card standings. One game, one win -- which would have been just their third in the month of September -- and the complexion of things would remain overcast, but steer clear of dour. They couldn't do it. Of the three games the Red Sox to the Rays this past weekend, the most surprising was the 9-1 rout behind Jon Lester. But the most frustrating, by far, was the walkoff win for Tampa Bay late on Saturday night. Nobody was expecting much from Kyle Weiland, and he delivered a lukewarm four-inning, three-run start before being yanked in favor of Alfredo Aceves. The Red Sox, meanwhile, had squeezed a run across in the top of the second on a ...