Bombing in Boston
By lefty
The Red Sox Nation army was defeated in a major battle fought in their homeland Friday, by their archrival. "We're just trying so desperately to get on the right track,” said Terry Francona in this AP story on ESPN.
Terry, Desperation is no way to play baseball.
With Curt Schilling starting the game, and Keith Foulke finishing it, you would have expected a low scoring game with Boston the victor. The 8-7 heart breaking loss has moved the Sox 9 1/2 games behind.
At the beginning of the year, baseball prognosticators were predicting a Chicago cubs vs. Red Sox World Series. Now, the Sox need to beat out a Chicago team with Sox of a different color if they even want to win the wild card.