Sigh. Shell-shocked. But this year has been weird: every time either the Sox or the Yankees suffer what should be a crushing loss, such as when each team swept the other or when the Yankees lost to Cleveland or Kansas City, the teams bounce back. Got to put the past out of your mind, got to move on. Learning to cope with baseball is like taking lithium: it mellows your highs, it tempers your lows.
Here is theory of anticlimactic duels: marquee pitching matchups always end up with one pitcher being subpar. Pedro vs Hudson was a good example, and the wheel of fate turned against Pedro today. Whereas the best pitching duel I saw this year was the 1-0 Royals-Tigers game between Zack Greinke and Mike Maroth. C’est la vie, said the old folks, goes to show you never can tell.