I think it does make a huge difference what time of the year a team gets hot. The Yanks were torn to pieces in every newspaper, tv show, website...they were left for dead with no hope to return....now they are coming on stronger than imagined and you know they want to prove everyone wrong...
meanwhile the Red Sox are just trying to stay afloat. Sooner or later they will catch up and have momentum on there side. Best way to reverse that is take the first series against the Yanks but with our offense I don't know if I see it happening.