The Tenth Daughter of Memory- Distance

Birds where chirping, the sun was shining. A perfect day for baseball. The players trot out to the field for ALCS Game 5. Now nightfall, 7:05, crisp, cold October baseball air. Daisuke's on the mound and the Red Sox can comeback down 3-0 or 3-1 for the third time. And the game begins.

Carlos Pena tied an ALCS record by homering in his third straight game, then Longoria broke it five pitches later with his sixth postseason homer. Tampa Bay's 13 homers set an ALCS record, breaking Boston's mark of 12 against the Yankees in 2003. B.J. Upton and Longoria became the first teammates in AL history with at least six homers apiece in the postseason.

Then Upton pounced on Daisuke Matsuzaka for a two-run homer on the game's ninth pitch. Carlos Pena and Longoria hit back-to-back homers for the second straight game, and Scott Kazmir held Boston to two hits over six innings, never allowing a runner past second base.

Fenway Park fell silent, and the Boston Red Sox were on the verge of going down without a whimper.

Then baseball's comeback kings did it again,
Then the Red Sox sprung to life, It Ain't Over

The first six innings and the final three innings of the Red Sox's improbable comeback couldn't have been more night and day.

Trailing by seven runs with seven outs left in their season, Boston trailed 7-0 with two outs in the seventh, then rallied when Dustin Pedroia hit an RBI single and David Ortiz added a three-run homer against Grant Balfour. Drew hit a two-run homer in the eighth, and Coco Crisp tied it with a two-out RBI single off Dan Wheeler.

In the ninth, Kevin Youkilis reached on an infield single with two outs when he grounded to Evan Longoria and wound up at second as the throw bounced in front of first baseman Carlos Pena and into the stands for an error.

Jason Bay was intentionally walked, than Youk took off and Drew hit over the outstreched glove of Gabe Gross. He watched the ball hop into the bullpen. He watched the ball leave. He watched the ball go into the distance.