The Boston Red Sox are looking for a hero and not the silly season kind dumped on us by Marvel comics. We need a baseball hero. A legitimate force to step up and take charge in the Cleveland series and beyond. As hero’s go with expanded playoffs the hero of one series can become a failure in the next.
In the first World Series, the hero was right-hander Bill Dinneen, who went 3-1 in the series tossing 35 innings. Dinneen won 21 games that season so his performance was no shocker.
In 1912 Smoky Joe Wood won a pair of games and tossed relief in the final game as Boston defeated the New York Giants.