Go Red Sox !!!

Last night the Sox took a blistering six-run lead, then held off the Colorado Rockies, 10-5, in winning game 3 of the 103d World Series before a crowd of 49,983 blissfully unaware of the real meaning of the white towels they waved with such fervor when this one started. Only one American League team in 103 years of World Series play, the Yankees, has executed a four-game sweep in successive Series appearances. Three years to the night Keith Foulke flipped to Doug Mientkiewicz for the final out of the 2004 Series, the Sox stand poised to become the second team to do so. Tonight, the Sox send cancer survivor Jon Lester, 14 months after his diagnosis, to the mound for a potential closing scene that would make Hollywood blush and New Englanders weep.