Historic Postseason Night: Bosox 7, Los Angeles Angels 5

As the regular season wound down, did you have that funny feeling of deja vu as the Met's collapsed and the final postseason spot came down to a one game do-or-die match-up?  Yeah, me too.  That feeling was strong again last evening as the Red Sox took a 2–0 ALDS lead over the Angels...again. While the outcome hearkened October of 2007, the game itself was nothing like a rehash of other Boston postseason victories.  After jumping to a 4–0 lead in their first at bat, most of the remainder of the game featured the tenacity of the Halos hitters.  Never scoring more than one run in any inning, the Angels battled back to tie things up 5–5 in the bottom of the eighth.  While the Red Sox had been keeping Angel's lead-off hitters cold over the first 12 innings (Games One and Two), once Anaheim changed that, their luck started to change too.  Every run the Angles scored began with the lead-off man reaching bases. As the ninth inning began, Boston ... (link)