Listen - I’m a Sox fan, and even I thought Hernandez was garbage tonight.  The top of the strike zone seemed to stay in one place all night, but not so much the bottom or the sides.  I’m sure Porcello was just being VERY smart with his comments - the Sox have to keep dealing with this rube - no sense in pissing him…

That was a completely alien ending. Those of us who were Sox fans before 2004 still expect the Yankees to beat us in that situation. I felt the dagger coming for my back as soon as Hernandez blew that third strike call to set up the bottom of the ninth. I fully expect to wake up in the hospital, to the sounds of the…

You gotta out the ball over the white part of the plate

Stanton would have whiffed at that pitch to.

Red Sox are now 2-0 when Bucky Dent throws out the first pitch before a playoff game in Yankee Stadium (tonight and Game 7 2004).

Really the whole thing is highway robbery, with the Bain Capital crew fucking over everyone else.