World Series - Games 2 & 3
Red Sox 2, Rockies 1
Red Sox 10, Rockies 5
Red Sox lead, 3-0
The last time I watched a Red Sox postseason game in Williamsburg, VA's College Delly, the Yankees annihilated the Sox in the third game of the 2004 ALCS. Fortunately, an alcoholic haze softened the blow, if only slightly. Last night's buzz was quite a bit more celebratory, but man, am I getting too old to stay up until 4:00 in the morning.
In a nod to the hangover implied by that last sentence, I'll be brief here today. It's a pretty simple equation that tells the tale of the series to date: the Sox are just better than the Rockies. As we've noted here before, it's not rocket surgery. Doesn't mean that the Sox will necessarily win tonight - hell, it doesn't guarantee that they'll win another game in the series, but that doesn't make it less true.
The Sox have also been the beneficiaries of all the bounces in this series. Jacoby Ellsbury doubled 3 times last night despite not really clobbering any of them. Daisuke Matsuzaka drove in 2 runs with a groundball single. Julio Lugo made a sick leaping catch to deny the Rockies runs of their own. And I'm sure there was a bunch of other stuff - hey, I told you there was alcohol involved.
Here's hoping that a different kind of spirit is involved this evening, one that's fizzy and requires goggles.
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