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Boston can now suffer its collective coronary. Boston finally shut the door on Oakland. Up 4-3, with bases loaded, two out in the ninth, the game ends with Derek Lowe striking out Terrence Long. And about a million Red Sox nation folk collapsed, because Boston didn't.

Next stop: New York.

To avert Armageddon, we need to hope for a Marlins-Sox series. :-)

But on a serious note, best wishes for a speedy recovery to Johnny Damon, who looked to have suffered a collision about as serious as my cinderblock wall incident.