Red Sox certainly had wacky rituals
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Boston&#39;s Kevin Millar says Red Sox players took symbolic sips of whiskey before Game 6 of the ALCS and continued with the ritual throughout their four-game sweep of St.
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Ol' blood and guts did it again for the Boston Red Sox.
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Thanks to a variety of unforeseen circumstances over the past few days, Red Sox manager Terry Francona has gone from mere lineup crafter to juggler.
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com. It sure looked that way over the weekend at Fenway Park, where the Red Sox played with hands of stone in the field and stranded enough runners to fill the Boston Marathon.
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David Ortiz had a different view of a familiar situation.
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David Ortiz&#39;s drive into the right-field bullpen set off a frenzy at Fenway and gave the Boston Red Sox a shot at pulling off the greatest comeback ever.
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The Red Sox appear to be the center of the baseball universe.
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The key is to be discreet. The mayhem that is the hallmark of any postseason series victory, a champagne-spraying, beer-guzzling clubhouse riot, has to be orchestrated behind the scenes, and it has to be done carefully.
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BOSTON -- David Ortiz&#39;s fly ball headed toward the rightfield fence, and for an .instant it .appeared the Red Sox would rally for another improbable win.
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The 1975 World Series was a movable feast that charmed the nation. The nightmare of Vietnam had just ended. We were still shaking off Watergate. In Boston, the ordeal of busing featured class warfare in the streets. They were not the best of times. Then along came the Reds, the Red Sox, and Game 6 and we discovered baseball could ...
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FOXBORO, Mass. -- C&#39;mon, did anyone really think a New York team had a prayer of ending a historic winning streak by a Boston team this week?
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So many angles. So many sub-plots. So much intrigue for a game pitting two non-winning teams holding one-way tickets to irrelevance.
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Is it really true? Did it really happen? Or was that just the figment of some Boston Red Sox fanatic&#39;s wild imagination? Did the Red Sox really win the World Series for the first time since 1918 by sweeping the St.
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Forget all the nonsense in the stands. The baseball is what matters. Let the Red Sox fans jeer Alex Rodriguez. Let them wear the blond wings and scream "Mine!" every time a pop fly is hit in his direction and rhythmically chant "A-Rod, A-Rod" when he's facing Jonathan Papelbon with two away and an 0-2 count in the ninth inning ...
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They play a mile high and keep their baseballs in a humidor. They were tossing snowballs during practice this week. Their entire payroll is not much more than what the Red Sox paid for the privilege of eating sushi with Daisuke Matsuzaka. And they're on an odds-defying run that would have made a billionaire out of a Vegas dice-roller.
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Omigawd, what a ballgame, what a glorious night at Fenway, what a way to enter the World Series. The Red Sox came back from (yet another) 3-1 series deficit, which is becoming routine for them.
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Remember when there was genuine concern about the Red Sox' lineup? Remember when folks were legitimately fretting that this team couldn't hit?