UPDATE: I ended up covering the last two innings in another post.
I decided to pick up a shift teaching curling this afternoon, and it looked like a great idea when I received a couple texts.
One, from my friend Randy: "Holy sh*t this Sox team"
One from my dad: "Here they go again - coming apart in the late innings."
Then I checked the score and saw that they gave up five in the eighth to fall behind 7-4.
About 45 minutes later, I received another text from my dad: "Unbelievable!!"
And then I checked the score and saw that they scored seven in the bottom of the ninth to bring their 10-game losing streak to a halt. Unbelievable, indeed.
I wasn't able to avoid all spoilers, but I still don't have a great idea of what exactly led to what, so I'm going to watch the last three innings in real time to have a better sense of the drama. In the meantime, here's a place to discuss it for when I fill in this recap with bullet points later.
In the meantime, I can accurately sum up my state with a treasured clip:
