New York minute? Boston's 6-5 win in 19 innings over the Yankees took longer than the time it takes the stragglers to cross the finish line at the New York Marathon: 6 hours and 49 minutes.
"All good things must come to an end at some point,'' said John Farrell, neglecting to mention that for much of Friday night and early Saturday morning, the Red Sox manager could not have been certain whether the game would prove good, or ever end, as his team gave back three leads, one each in the ninth, 16th and 18th innings, before finally prevailing.
The Sox were two strikes away from a tidy win in regulation when Yankees third baseman Chase Headley, who last September hit a walk-off home run off Sox closer Koji Uehara that caused Uehara to be removed from the closer job for the rest of the season, hit a game-tying home run off Uehara's stand-in, Edward Mujica...
