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Article: Rays Put Away Red Sox; Tampa Bay Advances to World Series
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- The Washington Post
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- October 20, 2008
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Rays 3, Red Sox 1
Sleep, precious sleep, had been hard to come by for the tormented
Tampa Bay Rays. If it wasn't being stolen by 1 a.m. finishes, 2 a.m.
flights or 5 a.m. arrivals on the other end of the East Coast, it
was being destroyed by the demon that had been unleashed upon their
souls three nights earlier in Boston. In their nightmares, the Rays
were always seven outs from the World Series, but held back by a
sinister form with a hairy face and red socks.
Some time in the wee hours Monday, then, 25 heads, full of
champagne haze, hit 25 pillows and slept the sleep of honest men.
The Boston Red Sox were vanquished, finally and completely, and the
Rays, the once lowly Rays, had made it ...