COMMENTARY
The ‘Rocky’ trilogy the underdog Red Sox were penning with these three American League Championship Series games at Fenway Park has glitched. The schedule said we were supposed to see Boston’s ‘Eye of the Tiger’ on Wednesday night.
Instead, Game 5 was their ‘Rocky V,’ a slog that couldn’t end fast enough, leaving the odds at their longest as they head back to baseball’s modern-day Soviet Union.
“We came back to Boston exactly where we wanted to be. You know, we were 1-1. Even took the lead in that Game 1 [in Houston].