The Sox lead, but for how long?

So as we enter the second half of the baseball season, the Red Sox sit in first place by the skin of their teeth, they find themselves completely unable to beat the damned Orioles, and the Yankees are actually winning games (for now). The Sox bullpen is, well, crap, and they have stumbled through the last homestand and roadtrip of the first half. They open the second half against with four games against the still-evil Empire. They need, I think, to take three of four against them, to put them in their place: below the Sox.
Please God, let us make it two in a row. I want to go back home for another parade!