A routine throw ticked off first baseman Mike Stanley's mitt. And the Boston Red Sox season trickled away in a record-breaking display of fielding futility. They're just physical mistakes.
Nobody tries to do that.
They just happened at the wrong time. The Red Sox might have been eliminated anyway last night. New York pitcher Orlando Hernandez was that strong. But the Yankees got help from Boston's weak fielding for the second straight night. Boston's 10 errors set a record for an LCS of any length.