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When, a millimeter from final defeat (with the champagne already uncorked in the Angels' dressing room), Henderson hit that fifth game homer, I reacted as I never had before. I didn't cheer or jump; I wept--not a few tears stifled by the customs of manhood, but copiously. Then, alone again in a hotel room (this time in D.C.), I had to watch when Henderson, reaching for immortality, apparently won the Series with another homer in the 10th inning of game six, and, with two outs and nobody on, the Sox came--not once but four times--within...
...held and abandoned my hypotheses in this vein during post-season play. After Henderson's resurrection in playoff game five, I actually dared to suggest that God was a Red Sox fan. After the most providential rain delay in recent sports history, between games six and seven of the Series, I decided that God cannot influence human actions, but still controls the weather. After the last game, I realized that He must hate the DH rule so much that He only favors the Sox within the American League. (I must, of course, now also entertain the possibility that either...
...Davey Johnson had less opportunity to be serene. But even with a full parcel of rest against worn Third-Game Winner Bob Ojeda, Cy Young-elect Roger Clemens' near best was just not quite enough. Darling could test his dream one final time against Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd. Dave Henderson and Lenny Dykstra, Boston's and New York's respective symbols of play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging and stamping his feet. Several centuries ago, the Sox were down to Henderson's last swing in California...
Buckner can be proud for giving his all while hobbling around first base. Dave Henderson can be proud of coming from last-place Seattle to first-place Boston and hitting up a storm in both the playoffs and the Series...
...Jesse Orosco came out of the bullpen and got Rich Gedman on a line drive to second, struck out Dave Henderson and got pinch-hitter Don Baylor to ground out to short...