After 12 innings and a long five hour game that ended nearly at 1am in the morning (EST), the Angels avoid a sweep, and live to fight another day. That's right, after 11 consecutive losses and two straight playoff sweeps, the Los Angeles Angels had grown tired of being a bump in Boston's road to the World Series. We are so devastated, well at least I am.
In 11 straight playoff losses to the Red Sox dating back to 1986, the Angels lost in every conceivable fashion: home and away, on walkoff homers and in one-sided routs. You name it, and the Angels found a way to lose. Finally, with a run-scoring single from Erick Aybar in the top of the 12th inning, the Angels stumbled upon a recipe for victory, edging the Sox 5-4 in an American League Division Series marathon. For much of the night, this one seemed headed for a predictable result. The Angels left multiple runners on base in the first, second, fourth and seventh. They allowed a rather benign blooper to drop between three onlookers, leading to the first three Red Sox runs. Then, just for good measure, because they’re the Angels and this is the postseason, they ran into an out on the bases in a big spot when Torii Hunter tried to stretch a single into a double leading off the ninth.
Now, with game 4 tonight they play with a lead and try to make sure the Angels don’t do to them what the Sox did against New York and Cleveland. The Red Sox must win tonight. And we have one thing that the Angels don't, heart and Lester.
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