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That infamous year, the Sox were up three games to two against the Mets. They had a two run lead with no men on and two outs in the bottom of the 10th—and still managed to lose the game. On the banks of the Charles, one student suffered the sports heartbreak of a lifetime...
Providence native and Sox fan Mark M. Robbins ’89 was in a room full of fellow Winthropians that night. The Red Sox were seemingly a lock for the win when Robbins recklessly opened his mouth. According to several of the students present, Robbins said the unthinkable at the most crucial of moments in the game. Following the second Mets’ out in the 10th, Robbins turned to self-described “die-hard Yankees fan,” Dr. John V. Heymach ’89, and screamed, “You?...
Robbins was not alone in speaking too soon for the Sox, who promptly gave up three straight singles to score the first run; a wild pitch to plate the second and tie the game at five a-piece; and a flubbed ground ball by first-baseman Bill Buckner that drove in the winning run for New York. This series of errors ended the Sox chances, even though they could have won the series the following night in Game...
According to fellow Sox fan and Newton South grad Matthew L. Ranen ’89, he and Robbins immediately left the room following the Buckner muff without saying a word to anyone else, or pretty much to each other, except for a couple of swear words now and again...
Robbins still appears to have had a difficult time recovering from that night. While Ranen proudly proclaims that, “This is the year,” Robbins is more reserved. He somberly declares the Sox “will lose in tragic fashion...