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...want to bury a ghost, you have to dig a very deep hole. And the Sox had dug themselves a doozy: down three games to none against the pin-striped demons of New York, Boston trailed, 4-3, as the team headed into the bottom of the ninth inning of what could have been the final game of the American League Championship Series (ALCS), three outs from another despairing winter...
...extra-inning game from the 2004 ALCS masquerading as an election wasn’t telling enough for you; if hypnotically inspecting the colors red and blue on the same screen as you watched Games 4 and 5 of Red Sox-Yankees wasn’t suitably prophetic; if being awake in the wee hours of Wednesday morning to watch white guys trying to defeat other white guys wasn’t good enough; here are a couple of reasons why autumn should be incredible for the sports universe...
...ignominy came in the 1997 World Series, when the Tribe was two outs from having its finger sizes measured. But Jose Mesa couldn’t hold the one-run lead in the bottom of the ninth, and in the bottom of the 11th, Tony Fernandez muffed a routine inning-ending double play, giving the Marlins runners on first and third with one out. We all know what happened next. If not, I’m sure you can guess...
...through Bill Buckner’s legs in 1986, fans can move to remembering the Sox legacy, not the mistakes. Also, victory sooths the heartache caused by the Yankees—from Bucky Dent’s three-run homer in 1978 to last year’s extra-inning home run by Aaron Boone...
...smart, tough, gifted, spitting self-confidence--who sees a curse as a challenge. Schilling, brought to Boston last November specifically to beat the Yankees, amassed 21 victories but came up lame for the first game of the ALCS. New York truncheoned the cripple for six runs in three innings en route to a 10-7 win. It appeared that Schilling, with a dislocated peroneal tendon in his ankle, could not start until late in the series--if the Sox could get to late. But doctors (first testing their unique technique on a cadaver) worked some impromptu magic, suturing the skin...