espn.com's sean mcadam, on the scheduling in the al east for the rest of the season:
AL East: The Tampa Bay Rays may have the lead, but they also have unquestionably the most difficult schedule of the three teams in the East.
The Rays have played the most home games of the three -- and by extension, of course, the fewest road games. Seventeen of their last 24 games will be on the road, including the final eight.
A seven-day stretch in the second week of September in which the Rays travel to Boston and New York could well determine their season.
The Red Sox, despite a just-concluded 4-5 homestand, still have the best home record in the majors and the schedule does them a favor -- they will play 19 of their final 28 at home, including the last seven straight. When the Sox finish their seven-game swing through Kansas City and Chicago on Aug. 11, they will have just two road trips longer than three games remaining.
The Yankees will play 16 of their 26 games in September on the road and will begin the month with a four-city, 10-game odyssey that will bring them to Detroit (makeup game), Tampa Bay, Seattle and Los Angeles.
Tampa, too, still has a West Coast trip remaining (this week); the Sox, by contrast, are done playing out West.
Monday, August 4, 2008
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