To be as clear as humanly possible, the Red Sox could have won the Wild Card Series over the Yankees. To be blunt, they should have won the series, as the miscues in a winnable Game 2 -- a dropped liner in left, a popped-up bunt, a base-running blunder -- were plays that Major League Baseball players have to make.

They could have won. They should have won. But they didn't. They lost Game 3 at Yankee Stadium, losing 4-0 and getting just one single base runner as far as second base, and now it's off to a long, cold winter for the Red Sox.

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Still, at no point in this brief postseason run did any reasonable person believe the Red Sox had the roster to really make a run to the World Series. The presence of Connelly

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