Boston Red Sox Power Rankings - 2013
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| WEEK | RECORD | RANK | COMMENT | |
| Week 12 | 42-29 | 2 | Jon Lester is winless in his past six starts, and during that span he's compiled a 7.20 ERA. -- ESPN.com | |
| Week 11 | 39-25 | 2 | The Red Sox's June schedule will go a long way toward telling us whether this team is for real. Thus far the Red Sox look very "for real," taking series from the Yankees, Rangers and Angels. This week, they face the Rays and Orioles. -- Hunter Golden, Fire Brand of the AL | |
| Week 10 | 35-23 | 4 | Clay Buchholz, who leads the majors with a 1.62 ERA, has given up only two home runs in 11 starts and has a .190 batting average against. -- ESPN.com | |
| Week 9 | 31-20 | 6 | After a sputtering start to the month, the Red Sox have turned things around in a big way, going 9-3 since May 15. The Sox will wrap up the month with their first interleague series of the year against Philadelphia this week. -- Hunter Golden, Fire Brand of the AL | |
| Week 8 | 27-17 | 5 | After a week of struggling to hit with runners in scoring position, the Red Sox offense finally snapped out of its funk, running off five wins in a row to end the week. They're now only a half-game out of the catbird seat in the AL East. -- Hunter Golden, Fire Brand of the AL | |
| Week 7 | 22-16 | 5 | After steamrolling through the month of April, the Red Sox have cooled off considerably, having lost eight of their past 10 games. Central to their struggles has been their offense, which has struggled to hit with runners in scoring position. -- Hunter Golden, Fire Brand of the AL | |
| Week 6 | 20-11 | 1 | Who knows if Clay Buchholz has been throwing a spitball. All that's certain is that he's putting up some impressive numbers (6-0 with a 1.01 ERA and a .178 batting average against in his first six starts of the season). -- ESPN.com | |
| Week 5 | 18-7 | 3 | The Red Sox capped off an impressive 7-3 stretch by sweeping the struggling Astros this past weekend. The difficulty level will rise significantly this week, however as the Red Sox begin a six-game road trip that'll take them to Toronto and Texas. -- Hunter Golden, Fire Brand of the AL | |
| Week 4 | 12-6 | 3 | Amidst an incredibly challenging week for obvious reasons, the Red Sox responded about as well as anyone could have hoped for, going 6-0 on the week before dropping both games in the day/night doubleheader Sunday against the Royals. More importantly, they gave Bostonians something to smile about again. -- Hunter Golden, Fire Brand of the AL | |
| Week 3 | 7-4 | 11 | To be successful in 2013, the Red Sox need Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz to bounce back and have productive seasons. So far, they've done that and more, as the two have combined to post a dominant 1.03 ERA in 33 innings pitched. -- Hunter Golden, Fire Brand of the AL | |
| Week 2 | 4-2 | 12 | At 4-2, the Red Sox are off to their best start since 2006, in large part because of great pitching and defense. The Red Sox have surrendered an AL-low 19 runs so far and are second in all of baseball in run differential (plus-17). -- Hunter Golden, Fire Brand of the AL | |
| Week 1 | 0-0 | 15 | After a positive spring where the rotation posted an overall 2.13 ERA, the Red Sox hope that success carries over when they open the season against the Yankees before traveling north for their first real test of the season -- against the Blue Jays. -- Hunter Golden, Fire Brand of the AL | |