Broken hearts in the Bronx

Even if it's only July, Red Sox Nation must be hurting this morning after last night's loss to the Yankees. Stepping back and looking at the bigger picture, Larry Mahnken has a great take on the game:

It was the kind of game that makes you a baseball fan until the day you die. [...] If it wasn't Yankees/Red Sox, if it wasn't such a crucial game for the Red Sox, it still would have been the best game of the year. That it was these two teams, that so much did ride on it for Boston, makes it one of the great games in Yankees history. It wasn't Bucky Dent, it wasn't Aaron Boone, but it was almost as exhilarating, almost as heartbreaking, and every bit as memorable.