Review of Red Sox Season and Postseason Heroics
The Red Sox 96 and 66 season could not have started off better for this team who is now making their second world series trip in four years. They got off to a great first month of baseball with a 16-7 record which had them out in front of the Yankees by a decent margin. They would continue to burst the gap open between them and their longtime rivals until August where they lost 13 games in that month including being swept by the Yankees. At this point the Red Sox still had a sizeable lead against the Yankees but people were beginning to wonder if the old curse was taking place again. In September things did not go much better for the Sox. They lost two out of three to the Yankees and then the following series were swept by Toronto. At this time also, the Yankees were unstoppable and really gaining ground on the Sox. Knowing that if they did not turn things around soon their AL East title hopes would be over they won 6 of their next 9 games to hold on to their division with a two game lead over the Yankees. A lead that had once been as much as 14 and a half!
Faces at the U.S. Open
