The Red Sox had a very tough game tonight against the Cubs; one big inning for the cubs meant the difference. An 8 run inning by the cubs - which was made possible by three Red Sox errors - was the difference in the game.
They had a 3-2 lead in the 8th when all that stuff happened thanks to Tampa Bay losing today they would have been at least tied for first base with the Yankees, who also won. But, instead, the Yankees are a half a game ahead of us in first place.
I have some interesting stuff...stats between 1918 and this year. When the Sox and the Cubs met in the 1918 series...in the first game the teams scored a total of three runs combined; last night combined runs scored were twenty! Time of game in 1918 - one hour and forty-six minutes. Time of game last night, three hours and thirty-five minutes.
Attendance 1918 - 15,235
Attendance 2011 - 37,140
Price of admission 1918 - $1.65
Price of admission 2011 - 55.00 on average
Thanks to ESPN Baseball Tonight for the stats.
As another aside, Major League Baseball network - for the last two and a half months - has been doing a countdown once a week for the top 20 games of all time in major league history and the Red Sox make a number of appearances on this list. They is from the MLB website
#17 Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS Yankees / Red Sox Dave Roberts steals a base, Big Papi hits 12th inning walk-off game-winning run.
#11 1978 1 game playoff Yankees vs. Red Sox Bucky Dent walk-off home run for Yankees
#8 ALCS 1986 Angels vs. Red Sox game 5 ALCS, Henderson home run sends series back to Boston.
#6 Game 7, ALCS Red Sox v Yankees, Boone walk-off home run in 2003
#3 1986 Game 6 of World Series Mets vs. Red Sox Ball through Buckner's legs
#1 Game 6 of the 1975 world series, Red Sox vs Reds, Carlton Fisk 11th inning walk-off home run to end the game.
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R.I.P. Randy "Macho Man" Savage.
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