Allsports does not Believe the Red Sox are Done Yet

A funny thing happened on the way to crowning the Tampa Bay Rays the 2008 American League Champions. The Boston Red Sox had something to say about it. The Rays had their collective heel on the throat of the Red Sox, being up three games to one and leading game five by a 7-0 score going into the bottom of the seventh inning. Then the Bosox bats came alive and by the time the dust had settled, the Red Sox had posted a 8-7 win to trial the series 3-2, going back to Tampa Bay.

This major comeback tweaked the interest of all sports so some research was done on the web for sports news on MLB playoff come backs. It turned out that the come back was the biggest in Major League Baseball history since 1929 and the second biggest in Major League history, period. What was the biggest come back in MLB history you may ask. Well it occurred on Oct 12th 1929, where the Philadelphia Athletics came back from an 8 run deficit to beat the loveable loser Chicago Cubs in game four of the World Series.

This is nothing new for this Boston Red Sox and I think Tampa Bay may pay dearly for letting the Red Sox up off the mat. I take you back in time to some recent Red Sox, history. Boston trailed the dreaded New York Yankee’s 3-0 in the  2004 ALCS and came back to win the series and go on the win the World Series that year. Then last year they were down 3-1 to the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS, coming back to win that series before beating the Colorado Rockies in the World Series.

The way Allsports is looking at this, historically Boston has Tampa Bay right where they want them. Other web sports news articles tend to agree.

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Red Sox Comback

Some vintage video of the 1929 series for your enjoyment.

“No Guts No Glory”

Walt Webb