The Red Sox get instant karma
Posted by Henry on July 2, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Filed under: Baseball, Boston Red Sox
Whenever a team suffers a disastrous loss, the team’s fans reel. They expect the team to reel. They take the loss as evidence of some tragic weakness in the makeup of their hero. Oedipus was up 10-1 over Fate in the freakin’ seventh. How was a loss even possible?
All this anguish went for nought as the Red Sox proceeded to rally the next night, scoring 4 in the ninth to tie the Orioles, then beating them in extra innings.
Carl Bialik has the numbers. Of the two comebacks, the Orioles’ was the more improbable. Oddly, the odds against the Red Sox were slightly more extreme with the score 5-3 and two outs in the ninth then they were at the beginning of the ninth with the score 5-1.
As for fate, Jonathan Papelbon gets redemption. He doesn’t blow the save. None of the other pitchers involved in the debacle on June 30 were involved. Ramon Ramirez gets the win. The key hit is delivered by Rocco Baldelli off the bench.
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