Published 10/17/2008
at The Seattle Times: Sports
Perched on the right-field roof at Fenway Park, Dennis Eckersley could see it all slipping away from the Boston Red Sox. Heard it, too. No noise, no hope. "People were just sitting there. I can't remember it ever being that quiet," the Hall of Fame pitcher said Friday. "It's not like the Rays were scoring runs on groundballs. It was home run after home run after home run. Boom, boom, boom!" the former Red Sox ace and current TBS analyst said over the phone. "It was like, 'Stop, they're killing us!" And then somehow, suddenly, it all changed Thursday night.
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