NY in shock after Red Sox win
New York is still in shock today after their beloved baseball team the Yankees suffered a surprise defeat to arch rivals, the Boston Red Sox.
The Yankees lost a seven-game series four games to three, despite being 3-0 ahead early on.
It marked a record turnaround for the Boston Red Sox and the worst collapse in history for the Yankees.
The Yankees’ early surge, and then their collapse, has dominated New York’s front pages all week.
The New York Post mourned the loss under the headline, Damned Yankees, today. “Humiliating, embarrassing, humbling,” was how the newspaper summed up the defeat.
The New York Daily News declared, The Choke’s On Us, and declared the Red Sox win “the greatest comeback in the history of sports”.
The defeat came as an embarrassment for Yankees players, some of the most highly paid sports stars in the world.
The team’s recent prize signing, Alex Rodriguez, who is paid £13.7m (€10.8m) every season, admitted: “They beat our asses, that’s it.”
Boston’s 10-3 victory in game seven of the American League Championship Series puts them in the World Series against either the Houston Astros or the St Louis Cardinals.
The last time they won the World Series was in 1918.
