Tagged As: Boston Red Sox, MLB Playoffs, Sports

The New Beasts of the East, the Boston Red Sox, go into tonight with their season on the line. Down three games to two, the Boston faithful are hoping for the kind of play that toppled the Yankees in 2004. The team woke up after two painful games against the upstart Tampa Bay Rays.

Josh Beckett will take the mound and will need to shake off his first two postseason appearances, in which he was fortunate to avoid two losses, but not fortunate to leave the games with less than an 11.57 ERA. Beckett will need to beckon a performance like his starts in September when he was dominant on the mound. The offense, especially David Ortiz, will need to show that Thursday’s late game re-emergence was not just a last grasp.

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