“A fastball, right over the plate,” Beckett said. “We’ve got to win games. We’re not going to do it when the starting (pitcher) gives up six runs and most of the guys got in at 4 in the morning.”
That was courtesy of the Yankees, who (dragged) the Sox into the 14th inning late Sunday night in the one game Boston (managed) to win in New York.
Distress has now enveloped the Red Sox like a bad soap opera. At least they had a noisy contingent of supporting fans, a (majority) of whom settled in the stands behind Boston’s third-base dugout, (praying) for the Sox to snap out of it and for a little help from their new friends on the west (coast) of Florida.
They got neither. For Red Sox Nation, one bad omen follows another. For the Patriots fans who (traveled) here, it was the Brady bunch’s loss at Buffalo on Sunday afternoon that (presaged) more pain Monday night.
“How do you blow a 21-0 lead?” Gina Targhetta said of the Patriots.
To which Dan Skiba said, “How do you blow a nine-game lead in September?”
The Sox have blown all of it now. Two games to go. Two games to redemption, or death.
