On Thursday night in Game 3 of the ALCS, 20 years to the day that David Ortiz (and Dave Roberts) helped spur a Boston Red Sox turnaround, the New York Yankees had a game stolen twice: once by Jhonkensy Noel, and again by David Fry.
The Cleveland Guardians have reinserted themselves into this particular series, and, naturally, so have Boston fans. Because if there’s baseball happening and the Yankees are losing, Bostonians just love to wedge themselves in there, obscuring another playoff-free October in New England.
But it wasn’t Bostonians equating Papi’s and Fry Papi’s homers that got us angry. They were always going to do that. Yankee heartbreak is their currency…