Red Sox Win Another World Series

It's interesting to note that after the game-ending obstruction call that gave the St. Louis Cardinals a Game 3 victory, the Boston Red Sox didn't lose a single game, winning the next three games, the final Game 6 emphatically.  The old Sox that I remember from the 70s and 80s might have been so psychologically thrown off by that one play and the game-ending call, that they could have wound up losing the Series altogether.

At the time, it felt like the obstruction call might go down in Red Sox history as another of those awful events, like Bucky Dent's home run in 1978 or Bill Buckner's error in 1986, that defined an era of loss and frustration.  But the curse was lifted in 2004, Boston rebounded from the loss, and the Red Sox are the 2013 World Series Champions.