Yankees 7, Red Sox 3. The series is now 2-1, albeit still in Boston's favor. Whether New York will be able to tie things up or whether Fenway's Finest will be able to take three games out of four all comes down to tomorrow's Patriots Day game, which is scheduled to start at the unusual hour of 11 o'clock a.m. so as to accomodate the Boston Marathon (fans generally leave the ballpark and take right to cheering the runners along the streets of the Back Bay).
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Patriots Day holiday, it's one of those New England things. Every year we celebrate the Battles of Lexington - a.k.a. "The Shot Heard Around the World" - and Concord that began the Revolutionary War. Two hundred-odd years ago we were living under the tyranny of another guy named George, and although in many ways the Founding Fathers were less than perfect, the idea of inalienable human rights and liberties that they left us with is still worth fighting for, no matter what the pundits tell you.
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