NEW YORK -- It was the day that would end with the Boston Red Sox spraying champagne at Yankee Stadium, the day they would celebrate a regular season that would end with the most wins in baseball this year and the most wins by a Red Sox team in any year.
It was that day, and longtime Sox radio voice Joe Castiglione was standing in the dugout before the game saving a thought for the team that was destined to finish a distant second in the American League East.
"They're still the Yankees," he said. "You still fear them—and our fans do, too.