Go Sox!!

[GlassJaw]

Greatest.Comeback.Ever

 

[AIM-54]

WHOOOO!!!! We won! We won! We won!!!

I was waiting for the shoe to drop the whole game...but we pulled it off!

WHOOOO!!!!

My girlfriend just called me from Kenmore Square and it's rocking! No surprise, though.

GO SOX!!!

 

[Old Fezziwig]

P-Cat's right about Pedro's throwing schedule. As for why, I think on some level, the Sox must have felt that the 7th was the most important inning of the game -- Schilling's not available and neither is Foulke, so that makes Petey the best available option in the most important inning of your entire season. Bill James has said it before, IIRC, and I believe it's true -- you want your best pitcher pitching at the most critical junctures, whether it's the seventh or the ninth. As for the "Who's Your Daddy?" chants, I don't think you make a baseball decision based on what the crowd's chanting but on how your pitcher reacts to it. It doesn't bother Pedro apparently.

Nick

 

[Old Fezziwig]

ironmani: Yeah, I think that's interesting, too, although it makes sense given the obstruction rule. Of course, that probably would have set off a mini-brawl (thinking of the scrape between Carlton Fisk and Thurman Munson, I think, back in the 70s). Probably best that things happened as they did (well, as a Red Sox fan, of course it's best things happened as they did).

Nick

 

[Crothian]

Well, the Sox still have a long way to go. Neither of the other teams they could play is looking like a cakewalk. But it was a good boring game allowing me to watch other TV shows.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Agreed. Although I've got to say that I'd rather face the Cards than the Astros. The Houston pitching is more worrisome to me, and they've got a lineup that's nearly as sharp as the St. Louis lineup.

Nick

 

[talinthas]

what a series. best baseball i've ever seen.

 

[Crothian]

Well, that's going to be a great game seven tommorrow night and maybe people will actaully watch it

 

[drothgery]

Still sticking with my forecast from up-thread: Cards/Astros winner takes the World Series in 5.

 

[mearls]

I still have not absorbed all this. I still can't believe it happened. You couldn't get away with writing a movie that had this plot - no one would believe it.

Thank God I don't have any critical work this coming week. I'm not going to be able to focus on anything but the World Series.