If Tom's Brady's season-ending knee injury was a flush kick to the groin of New England sports fans, then Tuesday night's ninth-inning defeat to the Tampa Bay Rays was a punch square to the jaw of Boston Red Sox fans.
It was all set up for the Red Sox to take back first place, with their own two-run rally in the eighth inning and their All-Star closer on the mound looking to get the final three outs. The 5-4 loss might have been the most devastating loss of the season for the Red Sox.
Weeks from now, will we look back at Tampa's two-run ninth inning rally off Jonathan Papelbon as the game that stopped Tampa's early September slide, propelles them to hold onto first place in the AL East and stops the Red Sox run towards first place?
Or was it merely a bump in the road as Boston eventually catches the Rays for first place?
Josh Beckett will have a lot of say in starting to answer those questions as he takes the mound Wednesday night in the series finale. A good start from Beckett and a Sox win tonight goes a long way in shaking the confidence of the Rays. A Tampa win and a 2.5 game lead on Boston with less than 20 games to play, only will strengthening the confidence of the Tampa players.
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