"Up seven runs with seven outs standing between you and the World Series and you squander a chance to put away the defending champs...good luck winning this series."
Those words were as easy to write as they were to say because they were the God's honest truth. They did let one go in a major way; a possible meltdown of monumental proportions.
But these are kids that the Red Socks are playing. All season they haven't known any better. They don't know
what just happened. They know that they got beat but they don't know how. I mean, the coaches and,
for 
that matter, the press can blame it on spotty relief pitching or Evan Longoria's right arm or Fenway's short right field porch. They can blame it on anything they want. Bottom line is Boston is still up against it. The Rays are not only kids who don't know any better, they're very talented ones, as well, with arguably one of the best lineups in baseball. This team will do what it has done all season: shake it off and play with a short memory. That's been their recipe for success leading up to this point and that is what, in my opinion, will win them game six behind "Big Game" James Shields.
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