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khaosworks) wrote2007-10-22 01:46 pm
khaosworks) wrote2007-10-22 01:46 pm
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Back in the Series
Seriously, I got to give the Rockies props for staging an amazing comeback this season, and congratulations for their first ever post-season series win. Frankly, if they weren't facing my beloved Red Sox, I'd be right in their corner cheering for them.
But it's the Red Sox. So bring it on, bitches.
With Indians’ Help, Red Sox Finish Another Comeback
By JACK CURRY
Published: October 22, 2007
But it's the Red Sox. So bring it on, bitches.
With Indians’ Help, Red Sox Finish Another Comeback
By JACK CURRY
Published: October 22, 2007
BOSTON, Oct. 21 — The Red Sox waited 86 years between winning World Series titles, so they know what it feels like to be a doomed franchise. They know how it feels to be the team that experiences devastating losses and agonizing endings. They know what it feels like to be the Indians.More...
Do you believe in Matsuzaka? The Red Sox did, for about five innings. What they believe in more are miracles, playoff miracles. How could the Red Sox doubt that there is something miraculous about what they just did?
Of all things, the indecisiveness of Cleveland’s third-base coach was crucial as Boston used five solid innings from Daisuke Matsuzaka and the rest from a ready, willing and able bullpen to win, 11-2, and rumble into the World Series. The Red Sox rebounded from a three-games-to-one ditch to snatch the best-of-seven American League Championship Series.
The Indians wondered how this happened, just as the Yankees wondered how they botched a 3-0 lead in the 2004 A.L.C.S. and watched the Red Sox make history in their backyard. The Red Sox made some different history in their own backyard Sunday by becoming the 11th playoff team to erase a 3-1 deficit. Boston battered Cleveland, 30-5, in the last three games.
“Nobody wanted to go home,” second baseman Dustin Pedroia said. “Nobody wanted to say goodbye to anybody.”
After Joel Skinner, the Indians’ third-base coach, stopped Kenny Lofton at third when it seemed that he could have scored the tying run in the seventh, the game, the series and the season changed. The Indians were out of the inning on the next pitch, Pedroia followed with a two-run homer, and the Red Sox started envisioning Game 1 of the World Series against the Colorado Rockies here Wednesday night.
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