Go Red Sox...

Well well well...
Its just one of those moments when sport makes you realize there's reason to believe.
Last Friday, drowned in a cold and fresh Budweiser (It was indeed game time), I was drawn into the Yankee-Red sox ALCS league playoffs.
Game 1 was a good encounter and apparently gave me a lot of excuse to suck myself into watching game 2 ( not to mention the cold and fresh Buds too). 2-0 Yanks.
The ballgame changed bases to Boston's Fenway Park - home of the Red sox, and along with the hapless home fans, I watched the brutal rout of the Red Sox at home 19-8. Down 0-3 in a 7 game series, and there was the firm reason to believe there was no more belief and 2004 still won't be the year when the course would be reversed.

Just when everyone was firmly believing Red Sox were just going through their motions down by 2 outs and trailing 3-4 in the bottom of the 9th in Game 4, Kevin Millar ties it with a RBI to make it a tie. Ortiz slams a homer in the bottom of the 12th to see Red Sox home and ensure a game 5.
Ortiz scores a RBI to allow Johny Damon finish a run in the bottom of the 15 th to see Red Sox home in what was the best ball game ever in Baseball history.
Inning after enthralling, nail-biting, edge-of-the-seat inning in overtime, and the Sox just scamper home.
The commentator summed up the moment beautifully with a " David ortiz drives, Johny Damon runs and the Sox can run all the way to New York".

The Sox, definitely beleiving in themselves now and charged/pepped up with their recent come from behind overtime victories and no Pedro Martinez playing so the Yankee crowd couldn't hoot " who's ur daddy ? " turned the tables on a Yankee ball team that looked woefully lost and din't give an impression they were in the game at all.
Curt schilling just pitched his way to glory after having turned villain in Game 1.

This set up a "expected to be keenly contested" series decider between 2 of the most intense rivals in the ALCS. The Yanks were expectin a repeat of 2003 when a Boone homer in the bottom of the 11th in Game 7 took them home to the world series.
However Derek Lowe and the Sox had other ideas. Lowe pitched away striking one Yankee bat after the next, totally drying up the runs. On the other hand, Johny Damon wreaked havoc with the Yankee pitching with 2 Homers- 1, a grand slam and a 2-runner. Innings, Match, Series to Red Sox, and yeah...All the hearts too.

Never before have a team seem to have placed that much faith as did the Sox in Schilling in G6 and Lowe in G7 and never before have 2 players pulled their team through with greater heroic exploits as did these two.

How fortunes change in sport? Schilling fell from hero to villain to rise up as the savior hero once again within 2 games. The forgotten and neglected Lowe who is still unsure of his contract the next year pitched the Sox to victory when they were down and out, and twice in the space of 4 games. That's a special effort man.

2004 might after all be the year when the curse gets reversed and where all the belief of the 84 years might eventually pull through to pave the way for a Red Sox World Series title. Believe.

Lets Go Red Sox! We have reason to believe.