How bout them Sox?
The Red Sox just came back from a 7-0 deficit to tie it in the eighth and then win the game.
So the fat lady isn’t singing yet, and the Sox get another chance at the ALCS. It’s the second biggest comeback in playoff history.
The fans go wild.
Unfortunately I dozed off when it was 5-0 and woke up at 7-6, so I missed a lot of it. At least I saw the ending. What a game!
This is an instructive lesson in why you never leave a baseball game before it’s over. Can you imagine people leaving in the 7th inning when it was 7-0 and then listening to the radio during the drive home? Heh. Serves ’em right.
The biggest comeback in postseason history was in the 1929 World Series. The Chicago Cubs were leading the Philadelphia Athletics 8-0, then the A’s scored 10 runs in the 7th inning.
Wow. That above-mentioned 10-run 7th inning featured an inside-the-park home run. How improbable is that?
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1929/B10120PHA1929.htm
While is hapenning I pretend is not happening, so that if it does not happen I wont beat myself up too much over it.
But then, we seen this movie before, and we are starting to believe that is going to happen again… like a horror movie for the other team.
and then it happens – when it not supposed to happen – a bad trow – it’s like an unseen hand helping us along.
OMG. We won again with backs up against the wall.
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Many who?
We still a long shot, but after seeing how Many Ramirez played his bums off for the Dodgers, a win now would be that much sweeter.
Every time he got a hit it was like another charge on a running indictment brought by a betrayed ardent fan.
Since I’m a Philly boy, my team is already going to the World Series.
WOO HOO!!! 🙂
I used to be a Tiger fan and I will be again when they return to their natural habitat. Now, as a general baseball fan, I’d like to hear the hitherto unlikely sentence, “The Tampa Bay Rays are world champs.”
Of course, I’d also like to hear, “Don’t call me Lucy Lawless anymore. From now on my name is ‘Mrs. Alex Bensky.'”
It’s a LOVE LOVE relationship with the BoSox now….!
You cannot live without them.
That above-mentioned 10-run 7th inning featured an inside-the-park home run. How improbable is that?
Oh, I dunno, I’d say perhaps not so improbable. You can see the layout here:
http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/ShibePark.html#diag
334 feet down the left, and 331 feet down the right field lines, and a staggering 468 feet to dead center. That’s a lot of room for a sharply hit, but misplayed ball to roll around in. So far as I know, only the Polo Grounds had a deeper center field.
I was watching McCain & Obama at the Smith dinner, picture-in-picture with the Sox. Seeing Dice-K surrender the homer in the top of the first I returned to my pre-2004 mindset of ‘wait till next year.’ I apologize to the baseball gods for my sin of falling asleep before the game was over. I spoke with a couple of people that went to the game who said that it had to be one of the very best baseball games they had ever seen. Damn. And worse yet, it was not carried on NESN, thus no reruns, no Don & Jerry…
That brings me back to McCain and his tour-de-force comedic routine last night contrasted with the egg that Obama laid. Can a conservative Red Sox fan dare to dream of John McCain hosting the World Champion Red Sox at the White House next spring? Then again, I’d happily settle for McCain hosting the Rays or the Phillies.
I R A Darth Aggie Says:
I didn’t realize Shibe Park was so big back then. I was there a few times in 1969 and 1970. I have a couple of seat fragments from the last game. A little scoop of dirt is now part of my backyard. That is a cool site you linked.
camojack:
Yeah, that! 🙂
I still think Tampa Bay is going to win this one, but I think it really has been a fine season for my Red Sox. When you consider all the injuries that have happened to this team and the inconsistent pitching, plus earlier in the season Manny being a complete shit, I think Terry Francona has perhaps done his most masterful job of getting the most out of this lineup. Given everything, they overachieved this year. A few players have glaringly underachieved, especially Jason Varitek. I honestly think he’s really had a tough time, given the messy divorce he is going through.
Tampa is a STACKED team. There is a reason why they are where they are. After many years of having top draft picks, and sprinkled in key free agents like starting pitcher Shields, who they got from Toronto, it is all coming together for them.
Earlier in the season Theo Epstein talked about how formidable Tampa was as an organization loaded with talent. He thinks the Red Sox have their work cut out for them to find, develop, and match Tampa’s talent.
You love them underdogs and comebacks, don’t you, Neo?