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Boggs lacks Williams' power, and Mattingly lacks Dimaggio's speed, but baseball's two best hitters were once again playing in New York and Boston. There was even the semblance of a pennant race going...
...last four weeks turned into the last four days, the pennant race ended. And so did the comparison. For while Mattingly could still be compared to Dimaggio, Boggs could no longer be compared to Williams...
What other team could have devised a way to lose in those five fateful years? What other team would have let a runner (Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals) score from first base on a single to win the 1946 world series, or seen its pennant-clinching runner (Luis Aparichio) stumble in the basepaths just before he would score, or let one of its ace hurlers give up a home run to Bucky Dent in the division-deciding game against the Yankees...
That's why even (or especially) diehard Sox fans viewing this year's pennant race totter in the volatile area between grim cynicism and disbelieving joy as the BoSox strengthen their hold on baseball's strongest division. Trusting a team that's hurt you is difficult. Boston fans should know not to excite themselves over silly little 13-game leads, like the one the Sox blew eight years...
...will win the American League pennant this year because of their pitching. That good pitching wins ball games is a cliche, but nothing becomes cliched without being somewhat true. When was the last time any other team in the league had such a strong starting rotation? One has to look back a decade, to Baltimore's Palmer-Cuellar-Dobson-MacInally rotation to find such an agglomeration of hurlers on one American League team. Nor have the Sox, who now sport the rotation of Clemens-Boyd-Hurst-Seaver-Nipper, boasted such pitching in a decade. One wonders whether Clemens, Boyd...