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...serendipity and a whole lot of redemption. Sandwiched in between the forceful sweeping of the Anaheim Angels, 3-0, and the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0, the Red Sox showed their mettle in being the first team in history to come back from 0-3 in the postseason in the perfect destruction of the Yankees...
...defined by the magnificence of their misery. They can itemize their team's climactic agonies like the Stations of the Cross. A tantalizing lead, inevitably followed by victory-snatching disaster, stains their dreams and scars their muscle memory. Since 1918, the last 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...
...more days. In a reversal so dramatic and historic that the New York Daily News ran the headline HELL FREEZES OVER, the Sox roared back from a three-game deficit to sweep four games from the Yanks--the first time that had been accomplished in baseball's 102-year postseason history--to win the American League Championship Series (ALCS). They advanced to the World Series against another old nemesis, the St. Louis Cardinals, who defeated the plucky Houston Astros in a similarly adventurous seven-game fracas. With the Yankee phantoms of their failures--the Babe, Bucky and Boone--momentarily exorcised...
Even with the win, an at-large postseason bid is unlikely, but the Crimson will qualify for the NCAA Tournament if it captures the Ivy League title with victories in its last two games and a Princeton loss...
...about the Red Sox’s favorite chant, “Yankees suck!” It doesn’t mean the Yankees are terrible. Any team that wins more games than you, has won more World Series than you and has historically owned you in the postseason isn?...