OK, I'll say it, F-ck the Yankees
by Steve Mastro
I never liked the kids with all the fancy toys.... for once, lets just forget Babe Ruth and the Bill Gates of baseball - GO SOX!
Schilling-led Red Sox win again, force Game 7
NEW YORK (AP) -- It comes down to this: Game 7.
Again.
It seemed inevitable for so long, yet so implausible Sunday night: Yankees vs. Red Sox, winner take all.
With blood seeping through his sock, a grimace on his face and pride filling his heart, Curt Schilling shut down the Yankees and -- just as he wanted -- shut up 55,000-plus New Yorkers.
Less than 48 hours after the Yankees were three outs from a sweep, Schilling's 4-2 victory Tuesday night tied the AL championship series 3-3 and put Boston within one victory of becoming the first major league team to overcome a 3-0 postseason deficit.
''We just did something that has never been done yet,'' Schilling said. ''It ain't over yet.''
Derek Lowe will start for Boston, probably against Kevin Brown.
That's right, going into their most important game of the season, Yankees manager Joe Torre couldn't say who will take the mound. While Brown is the mostly likely guess, Javier Vazquez is in the mix, and Orlando Hernandez and Mike Mussina could be coming in out of the bullpen.
''We've got to play better for one game, that's the bottom line,'' Yankees captain Derek Jeter said. ''Their team has responded. We're going to find out about our team tomorrow night.''
With the benefit of two reversed calls by umpires, the Red Sox are just one win from getting back to the World Series for the first time since 1986 and earning another chance to reverse The Curse.
Pitching on a dislocated ankle tendon held down by three sutures put in the day before, Schilling gave up one run and four hits in seven innings.
''When I saw blood dripping though the sock and he's giving us seven innings in Yankee Stadium, that was storybook,'' Boston first baseman Kevin Millar said.
The Yankees, who rallied from a 5-2, eighth-inning deficit in Game 7 last year and won 6-5 on Aaron Boone's homer off Tim Wakefield in the 11th, were ahead 4-3 in the ninth inning of Game 4 Sunday night at Fenway Park only to loss in the 12th.
They led Game 5 in the eighth Monday, then lost that one, too, another marathon that stretched on for 14 innings and almost 6 hours.
Of the 25 previous major league teams that fell behind 3-0 in a best-of-seven series, none had forced a Game 7.
Schilling, who accepted a trade to the Red Sox last fall for the express purpose of beating the Yankees, took a three-hit shutout into the seventh before allowing Bernie Williams' solo homer.
