Inertia.

I think that I've seen this movie, something to do with February and giant rats. The team seems to be stuck in a giant, nightmarish loop. A loop they are doomed to repeat until they can show that they are decent human beings.

Maybe that's what Pesky's funeral represented: a rather obvious opportunity to display their humanity, to redeem themselves. And very few of them took it. Maybe none of them saw the movie.

Also, I'm torn between the idea of just sending Dustin home (Seattle to Boston isn't exactly a short flight and it's not like the team needs him to do this) and fear that they would probably be no-hit every game until he rejoined the team.