W L PCT GB TO PLAYOn the morning of September 21, 1964, the Cardinals trailed the Phillies in the National League by 6.5 games, with 13 games to play.
TBR 89 60 .597 --- 13
BOS 83 67 .553 6.5 12
W L PCT GB TO PLAYOver the next 10 days, St. Louis went 9-1, Cincinnati went 8-2, and Philadelphia went 0-10.
PHI 90 60 .600 --- 12
CIN 83 66 .557 6.5 13
STL 83 66 .557 6.5 13
At the end of the day on September 30, the National League standings looked like this:
W L PCT GB TO PLAY
STL 92 67 .579 --- 3
CIN 91 68 .572 1.0 3
PHI 90 70 .563 2.5 2
The Cardinals ended up winning the pennant, finishing 1 GA of both the Reds and Phillies -- and then they beat the Yankees in the World Series.As we can see, a comeback of the type the Red Sox need is not impossible. However, Bostucket's September roster is unlikely to reel off ten in a row; the season's longest winning streak is six.
Plus, of the Phillies' 10 losses, three were to the Cards and three were to the Reds. The Red Sox have no games against the Rays. And the universe can probably arrange to make that kind of collapse/comeback happen only once, and 1964 was it.
Or was it?
I like your thinking :)
ReplyDelete"Never, never, never give up" - Winston Churchill
Of course Churchill also said "I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly".....so who knows how seriously we should take him :)
ReplyDelete"..arrange to make that kind of collapse/comeback happen only once.."
ReplyDeleteIn Chaos theory an event can happen countless times in an infinite time line. Never say never, sometimes you roll sixes six times.