BOSTON — The Red Sox were encouraged by a better month of May that put them within sniffing distance of the three-team wild card race, but even as they finally emerged to become one of the best offenses in baseball, inconsistency as a whole followed them.
They know plenty of work remains if they want to be a playoff contender.
“What we did the first month of the season still counts,” Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom said Wednesday. “And so we’re going to have to do this for a while longer to really jump in this thing where we want to be.”
