He was 0-4 with two strikeouts last night, as the Sox lost to Toronto, 5-3, and fell 1.5 games behind the Yankees, who beat Cleveland, 10-5.

Am I the only one who wonders why the Globe doesn’t even point this out?

This is one sign of how Boston remains a small, charming/insular, parochial/combination of both town. If A-Rod were hitting abuckeighty, and the Yankees were falling out of first place thanks to a series of losses in close games, the NY press, for better or worse, would be screaming bloody murder….