Boston Crashes the Party at Number Three

Our team power ranking — record, run differential and recent form in one order.

The top two didn't budge, but a team ten games under .500 just muscled its way into third. Boston won all six games it played this week, and that kind of run is hard to argue with, even from a losing record.

Power Rankings

Power ranking — record, run differential and recent form, blended into one order. Tap a team for its week.

The Dodgers hold at number one despite a 2-4 week and a minus-14 run differential, carried by Shohei Ohtani's four homers, while the Brewers sit second after treading water at 4-4. The story is Boston, third now after a perfect 6-0 run and a plus-22 week behind Andruw Monasterio's two homers, and the Yankees right behind at fourth, still riding Ben Rice, who went 11-for-26 with five homers and twelve RBI. Tampa Bay took the hardest tumble, sliding five spots to eighth.

• 1–Los Angeles Dodgers61-36 · +149 run diff · 2-4 this wk›
• 2–Milwaukee Brewers59-37 · +126 run diff · 4-4 this wk›
• 3▲4Boston Red Sox46-48 · +27 run diff · 6-0 this wk›
• 4▲15New York Yankees54-42 · +91 run diff · 5-2 this wk›
• 5▲1Atlanta Braves55-40 · +92 run diff · 3-4 this wk›
• 6▼2Chicago Cubs54-42 · +52 run diff · 4-2 this wk›
• 7▲6Pittsburgh Pirates50-47 · +44 run diff · 4-2 this wk›
• 8▼5Tampa Bay Rays56-38 · +32 run diff · 4-3 this wk›
• 9▼4Miami Marlins52-45 · +24 run diff · 3-3 this wk›
• 10▲5Detroit Tigers44-52 · +24 run diff · 4-2 this wk›

Stats via the MLB Stats API. Colors, form scores and power rankings are Baseball Lens's own.