Visit to Detroit reminds Red Sox aren't the only young, promising team in baseball

"We're still in the hunt," manager Alex Cora told reporters. It will require better baseball than this. At 69-65, a 19-9 run equal to their pre-All-Star peak would mean 88 Red Sox wins."

"It's fun. This is why you play the game," Tarik Skubal, Detroit's young pitching star, told reporters after the Tigers lost Thursday. "But when you get caught up in that, it takes away from what we need to do... The standings don't matter if you don't win."

"I just don't get anxious over what's ahead. I don't think about the series ahead. I don't look to see what-ifs. I live in the moment..." said AJ Hinch, encapsulating his focus on the present.

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