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Tale As Old As Time Since Ted Williams Got Here

 The Red Sox have won four playoff games and lost two so far. Commentary on their to date exemplary performance has focused on Alex Cora's management of a guessing game pitching staff and Kiki Hernandez's metamorphosis into Roy Hobbs. 

The view from cruising altitude reveals a simpler story. In their four wins, the Sox have scored at least six runs in each game. In their two losses, they didn't, scoring none and four respectively.

Way back in 1990, then-Boston manager Joe Morgan was asked to give an overview of his club's performance that season sometime in July, "We're still the same old Red Sox," Morgan said. "When we hit we win."

Three decades and three world titles later, that summary still appears accurate.

posted by Michael Gee @ 7:48 AM