It has been one of the most fascinating Aprils ever in baseball, and the month isn’t over yet.

You saw it all the way through this past weekend. Cody Bellinger robbed Christian Yelich of a home run -- what would have been Yelich’s 14th -- before Bellinger hit one of his own (his 11th) to beat the Brewers for the Dodgers.

The Yankees won a couple of more games and then didn’t lose just another player to an injured list already more crowded for them than a subway train leaving Yankee Stadium, they lost their biggest player, in all ways. That means Aaron Judge, with what has been described as a “significant” oblique injury.

Jacob deGrom, the pitching star of last season, has a problem with his elbow. He goes to the IL. So does Boston’s Nathan Eovaldi, one of the pitching stars of last October. In the National League East, 1 1/2 games separates the top four teams. It’s 2 1/2 in the NL Central. The Mariners keep hitting home runs, and surprising everybody by staying on top in the American League West with the best record in the big leagues. The Twins are in first place. So are the Rays.

But the big story of the season so far, the great drama, continues to be Eovaldi’s team, the Red Sox, who came out of a lifeless two-game series against the Yankees to go down to St. Petersburg and sweep the Rays. If it had gone the other way, and they had gotten swept, they would have come back to Fenway with a record of 6-16. Already, before they’ve even played 25 games, there is actually speculation about whether they will be buyers or sellers at the Trade Deadline, after the equivalent of starting an NFL season 0-2.

Here is a comment from president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski on Sunday afternoon, as his Red Sox were in the process of grinding out a 4-3, 11-inning win against the Rays: “It is important to keep the same disposition, so it is not difficult to keep your composure. Not that you do not deal with problems, but you try to do it the same way as always.”

After a year during which almost everything for Dombrowski’s team went right, so much had gone wrong for the Red Sox before they got to St. Pete, and not just because of Eovaldi.

Mookie Betts, who had a big series against the Rays, the reigning MVP of the AL, had done almost nothing in Boston’s first 19 games, calling his own performance “unacceptable” at one point.

There was the disastrous 11-game road trip to start the season, and a 3-8 record. There have been mistakes on the bases and in the field, and Chris Sale, who got a big, fat contract extension has been a big, fat zero -- as in 0-4 -- so far, and a run differential nearly as bad as the Marlins’.

Lately the starting pitching has gotten much better (from a combined 8.79 ERA to 3.21 over the last nine games), mostly because it couldn’t get much worse. The irony is that the bullpen, even with a couple of late-inning homers off Matt Barnes on Saturday and Sunday, has been the most reliable part of the team after everybody in Red Sox Nation obsessed about it all winter.

Its most notable failure came in the second game of the Yankees series, when Ryan Brasier, who is currently manager Alex Cora’s closer, threw a big, fat 0-2 pitch to Brett Gardner, who hit a grand slam home run to ruin what will be Eovaldi’s last start for awhile.

While all this has been going on, the Yankees are 11-10, and have mostly been been saved after all the injuries they’ve suffered -- 13 guys on the IL so far -- because of a pillow fight of a March/April schedule. Somehow the Red Sox are just 2 1/2 games behind New York.

The Yankees blew a 5-0 lead on Sunday, came back to tie the Royals, and then win in extra innings. They Red Sox, meanwhile, were having some trip to The Trop.

On Saturday, they ended up with the bases loaded against Charlie Morton in the second inning. Two outs. Sandy Leon at the plate. Morton’s first pitch to Leon hit him in the foot. It was 1-0, Red Sox. Andrew Benintendi hit the next pitch Morton threw over the fence in left-center for a grand slam. When the Red Sox got tied later, it was Benintendi hitting a sacrifice fly off the Rays left-handed closer Jose Alvarado to knock home what turned out to be the game-winning run.

On Sunday, the Red Sox got Alvarado again, this time in the 11th. Christian Vazquez got the sac fly this time. The Red Sox hadn’t fallen even deeper into the AL East basement, weren’t leaving St. Pete 11 games behind the Rays in the loss column, which is what could have happened if a sweep had gone the other way.

So, the Sox had shown signs of life, after so much lifeless baseball. Dombrowski was asked on Sunday, about halfway through the game, what concerned him the most about his team’s play so far.

“Really our most concerning situation is that we just have not played well," Dombrowski said. "Hopefully, that can change in the near future.”

Maybe it all started to change this weekend. We’ll see. At least the Red Sox finally looked ready to play the season, looked like a championship fighter finally getting to one knee after getting knocked down hard. And maybe they reminded everybody in the process, starting with themselves, that there are still 140 games left.