Revel in a rout against a team with the worst pitching staff and worst uniforms in baseball all you want, Red Sox fans.

But if you think yesterday’s 16-2 thumping of the Diamondbacks revealed the true nature and ultimate fate of the 2016 Red Sox, please check yourself and check back in this space on Aug. 26 when the team returns to Fenway Park.

Tonight, the Red Sox begin a long and strange and just a little bit unfair, thanks to the Tigers, of a road trip that will show what they are made of.

They are not only running up against three teams — the Indians, Orioles and Tigers — that are everything Arizona is not (especially uniform-wise) but the Sox are running up against themselves. They have not been a good road team this season (26-25) and two-thirds of their remaining schedule, 30 games, will be played away from Fenway.

This team’s strength is the offense, and the Red Sox do not hit well elsewhere.

They average 4.8 runs a game on the road (six at home).

They hit just .263 on the road (.302 at home).

Two critical components to the lineup, David Ortiz and Jackie Bradley Jr., are hitting .255 and .234 respectively on the road, with Travis Shaw at .224.

Combine the team’s proven knack for mediocrity in close games, no knack for winning low-scoring games — 7-12 when scoring three or four runs — and a schedule over the next five days in particular that is as bizarre as it is draining, and you come up with a road test of critical importance to the Sox.

“We’re going out on an important road trip, and that importance might climb as we get deeper into the remaining games,” manager John Farrell said. “We’ve gone through some cycles offensively. It looks like we’re headed into one of those better cycles that we’ve seen strong offensive output.”

Farrell should hope so, for the reasons already stated. He and the coaches and players will also have to try and ignore a brutal schedule that did not have to be so brutal.

Today’s one-day in-and-out visit to Cleveland for a makeup of the season opener is bad enough.

But the first game of the series in Detroit on Thursday starts at 1:10 p.m., coming off a Wednesday night game in Baltimore.

The Red Sox tried to get the Tigers to push the start time back to late afternoon or evening when the times were set in the offseason. Major League Baseball said the Tigers could start the game whenever they wanted to, and Detroit refused to accommodate the Sox.

The Tigers have some prior history of Thursday afternoon starts. Another part of their history is that Red Sox president Dave Dombrowski was relieved of his duties as Detroit general manager last summer.

Is this some kind of a less-than-fond farewell card from the Tigers? Al Avila, bumped up to GM after serving as Dombrowski’s assistant, said yesterday that he doesn’t set game times. A request to speak with another Tigers executive yesterday went unanswered.

Maybe this has nothing to do with Dombrowski.

But it still feels like a bush-league move. And if you think the Tigers jimmied the schedule to gain an edge, you can read the mind of Dombrowski.

“They traditionally have played Thursday afternoons during the season, although they don’t always play (then) because if the roles were reversed, I’m sure they would have played a night game,” Dombrowski said. “And I’m sure they did it in some ways because they realized we would come in as a tired club, that they did it from a competitive perspective. Unfortunately we didn’t have any rights to get it changed.”

So, after a pre-dawn arrival in Baltimore tomorrow, followed by the same in Detroit early Thursday, the Red Sox will have had the honor of playing in four cities — Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore and Detroit — in five days.

That’s highly irregular, people. According to the estimable and never-wrong Bill Ballou of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, the last time the Red Sox played in four places in five days was 25 years ago, when they made a Fenway to Cleveland to Detroit to New York jaunt from Sept. 8-12, 1991. And September meant expanded rosters.

We are in August, and the 25-man, 64-52, wild card chasing Red Sox have embarked on a head-spinning road trip.

Finding the right balance between caffeine and sleep will be just as challenging as finding a way to pass their most important road test yet.