They increased their lead over the Blue Jays, who lost to the Rays, to 2 1/2 games, while they stayed two games up on the Yankees going into their big three-game set this weekend at Fenway, where they’ll have a chance to make things very hard for their rivals in the final week of the season. The victory pushed their winning streak to seven games as they continued to tighten their hold atop the wild card standings. ![]() ![]() Kyle Schwarber continued his season-long torment of the Mets with two more home runs, and the Red Sox didn’t look back in an easy 12-5 romp to seal a two-game sweep of the visitors from Queens, who couldn’t get out of their own way with a painfully sloppy defensive effort. And now with sweeps of the lowly Orioles and Mets, they’re in even better shape as they welcome the Yankees to town for perhaps the most important series of the season. With 11 of their final 14 games against teams with sub.-500 records, the Red Sox’ chances of at least making it to the wild card game already looked good. And so far, they’re taking full advantage of it. Among the teams contending for the American League wild card spot, the Red Sox were gifted with by far the easiest schedule to end the season of all of them.
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