On Wednesday, the Red Sox exploded for 10 runs in a rout. A day later, Cody Ross lifted the team to a walk-off victory, launching a three-run home run in the ninth inning of Thursday's game to ice the game.
But Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine doesn't think the momentum carries over from game to game.
"Not at all," Valentine said. "I think you can have momentum in a game, in an inning, but I don't think [on Thursday] necessarily carries over other than you have a good feeling when the game starts.
"Ten runs, sometimes, maybe you get a little over confident. Everyone gets hits, they figure 'Well it's going to be easy.' It's never easy at the major league level. Never. As soon as you think it is, that's when it gets really difficult."
Ross, however, believes it could produce positive ramifications. That's why the Red Sox outfielder was surprised in the ninth inning of Thursday's game that Boston couldn't muster up runs after erupting on Wednesday.
"It's just a crazy game," Ross said. "You'd think last night we'd feed off that and just keep going. But they shut us down and we ended up coming back. We got some timely hits and that's the kind of stuff you feed off of. Hopefully, we can continue with that moving forward."
Heading into Friday's game, the Red Sox have won five out of their last seven games.
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