Papelbon on the mound, the 2-2 pitch, swung on and missed! 3rd out of the 9th, 4-3 Boston in the game and now 4-0 in the series, and for the second time in 4 years, the Boston Red Sox were World Champions. Nevertheless that was 6 years ago, and in the half decade or so a lot has changed. Francona is gone, Manny Ramirez, Varatek, Papelbon, they have all moved on to bigger and better places yet one piece of that 2007 World Series was renewed last night. One piece and in fact, the biggest piece of the Sox 07 win was brought back to Boston last night: that piece was the Rockies.
Born the brainchild of John Antonucci the Rockies joined the MLB as part of a 1993, 2 team expansion (the other team that joined that year was the Miami Marlins). In their early years of existence the Rockies struggled as in the 14 years before their 2007 World Sires run they won just one playoff game. Nevertheless that all changed in 2007 when after finishing the year in sole possession of the NL wild card, Colorado stormed through the playoffs going 7 and 0 on their run to the World Sires.
Nevertheless, once the Rockies got to play for the title things changed as in the span of just a few days their perfect record evaporated and the Red Sox managed to strike them out of the World Sires.
Yet now 6 long years later the Rockies have returned to Fenway as the two teams played their first such game together since 2007, in a 9 inning affair last night.
Long story short, the 2013 Sox picked up right where the 07 ones left off. In the blink of an eye the Red Sox exploded as one man in particular who was on that 2007 team exploded carrying his team for the entire duration of the night. 2 runs in the 1st, 3 runs in the 2nd, 2 runs in the 3rd, 1 run in the 4th, 2 in the 7th and 1 in the 8th all amounted to an 11-4 rout of the Rockies.
Just 1 day after Boston was shrouded in sadness defeat and shock after the Hawks dismantled the Bruins in the span of just 17 seconds, the Red Sox picked their city up from the ashes and well sent the Rockies down into the ashes.
The Red Sox have now improved to a 46 and 33 regular season record and have now won 4 more games than the Yankees yet are only 2 and a half games up on the shockingly tight AL east. But regardless of that, the Sox won last night and should they continue to hit like they did on a less than inferior Rockies team these Red Sox will not have a tough time retaining their current position in the playoff race.
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