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...time Boston won a World Series, postseason has been the haunt of red October. And so very often the satanic specter for Red Sox Nation has been Damn Nation: the New York Yankees. A home run by Bucky (Freakin') Dent in a one-game playoff in 1978; an 11th-inning blast by Aaron (Flippin') Boone in last year's seven-game playoff heartbreaker. Why, there might even be a curse--of the Bambino, perhaps. For it was the 1920 trade of Sox star Babe Ruth to New York that sent the Yanks on their way to 26 championships while...
...that?s why I?m here,? said Leahy. ?My fianc? told me I had to go to the game because dad would have wanted me to be there.? Leahy said that his father passed away shortly after game 5 when the Sox beat the Yankees in the 14th inning. And there were countless others like Jeff Shneider from New York who had attended the 1975 World Series when Boston lost to Cincinnati, as well as 1986 against the Mets. Now he was in St. Louis with his son Kyle, who was barely 13. ?I never thought I would be around...
...watched the last half-inning of last week’s American League Championship Series in my common room, with what may have been the worst-informed baseball audience on the eastern seaboard. Periodically, someone would ask which team had scored the last point; peering intently at the television, one of my roommates said, “Wait—there are Asian baseball players?” When the game ended, we threw open the windows and listened to the shouts echoing across the Winthrop courtyard. “Whoo,” we said, perfunctorily...
Pedro Martinez gave up two runs in one inning of work...
...very different approach as far as looking at young players, moving away from some of the physical things that mattered in the past and focusing on drafting and bringing in baseball players. For my performance, there are statistics that have always mattered to me--base runners per nine innings, hits and walks per inning pitched, opponents' batting average. Things like that, to me, are indicators of a pitcher more than anything...