UnBelievable!!! my friend Mitch Says about the amazing night in baseball this last Wednesday.  Damn.  This is what makes it such a magical sport.

Check out the following for that evening:

Drama of Game 162 never seen before and likely never will again (from Mitch)

A Night of Twists and Collapses

Bill Buckner Strikes Again

Chart of Probability of Red Sox making the playoffs (spotted by Jack)

and also, the NPR story from the next day (audio):

Red Sox Shut Out Of Playoffs As Rays Clinch Wild Card

The Buckner link includes a link to a Youtube of the pre-wildcard Yankee-RedSox game in Boston in 1978.  At the all-star break that year, Redsox had a huge lead over their New York rivals, only to see it collapse and the ended the regular season tied with the Yankees, 99-63, which then required this one extra game to determine the winner of the American League East.  I was a Yankee fan at the time, and a college student in Boston, and was hanging on to one of the billboards behind the green monster for much of the game.

Jonathan Schwartz, a legendary DJ of New York’s WNEW-FM, was a die-hard Red Sox fan, and writer, and penned this amazing piece that appeared in Sports Illustrated back then.  Its now a small book that can be had used for $0.01 on Amazon (plus postage).