Phantastic Phillies one win away from ending William Penn’s curse
Tampa Bay looks over-matched, the Phillies are rolling, and I just don’t see a whole lot of reason right now for the Rays to be optimistic.
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Pick up a phone, find Terry Francona’s number and put it on speed-dial. For the duration of this less then exciting World Series, the Rays should keep [...]
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Game one goes to Philadelphia
Brad Lidge is once again lights out as the Phillies survive the Rays 3-2 in game one
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The Rays may be the comeback kids, but Brad Lidge is a totally different animal.
Lidge came out in the ninth, completely shut down Tampa Bay’s potent offense, and the Phillies walked out of game one with a [...]
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Tampa Bay all the way… to the World Series
Relive the final two and a half innings from a sports blogger’s point of view from an epic game seven
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Okay, so they’re not going to Disneyworld. Well, not yet at least, but Tampa Bay is going to the World Series after holding off the pesky World Champion Red Sox in a thrilling [...]
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ERays the Collapse: Tampa Bay does it!
The party’s not over yet for Tampa Bay’s improbable, unbelievable rise from worst to first in the American League
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Contact Disney, start sending them the scripts. This is officially a Hollywood story.
The Tampa Bay Rays knocked out the champs, and now they’re four wins away from being the champs.
Ten years of futility? [...]
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No looking back now Tampa Bay
Just what in the world does a team have to do to dispatch these pesky Red Sox?
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The thrill of victory. The agony of blowing a seven run lead. Tampa Bay was so close.
Up 7-0 in the top of the seventh, just nine outs away from the most improbable turnaround in recent [...]
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Red ShOXer
The Red Sox stun the Rays, coming back from a 7-0 deficit to win 8-7 on a walkoff hit in the ninth inning
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It’s the second largest comeback in baseball playoff history, and it comes from the team that just refuses to die! The Boston Red Sox, king of the comeback, have done it again. [...]
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You don’t mess with Florida
With Tampa Bay obliterating the Red Sox 9-1 at Fenway Park in game 3 of an exciting ALCS, Florida’s unexplainable post-season dominance continues
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You can’t help but wonder what is in the water in Florida. Or what they’re feeding these guys in Florida. Or something, anything at all, to explain the state [...]
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Eleventh Heaven
Rays win wild game two 9-8 in 11 crazy innings to tie their ALCS with Boston 1-1
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Fans were sleeping. Heads were slouched, yawns aplenty. On the surface, this didn’t look like the closing moments of a crucial game two. It looked more like the 2008 All Star Game, that [...]
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