Yes, yes. Lots of things can happen. Winning 59.5 games is actually not one of them.
You don’t make projections as a prediction, just for perspective of current performance on a larger scale. I mean, the Sox have played 6 out of 35 games against the last place Angels, which puts them “on pace” to play the Angels 28 times, and we all are fairly certain that isn’t going to happen. But recognizing that they’ve played one-sixth(ish) of their games against that struggling last place team might sway the perspective of some…