Down by multiple runs on the road, with two outs in the ninth inning, it’s human nature to think a comeback is possible.
The reality, however, is that the odds are infinitesimal.
When the Red Sox rallied for a stunning, 5-3, triumph over the Yankees on Friday, it marked their first win of that exact kind over their archrival in at least 115 years.
Masataka Yoshida tied the game with a mammoth two-run shot to right in the bottom of the ninth, then Ceddanne Rafaela gave Boston a two-run lead with a two-run blast to center in the 10th.