Lose the first two games of a seven-game MLB series and it becomes very difficult to win the series.
Sunday, I wrote about teams losing the first game of a seven-game series in the League Championship series round and how quite a number of them had come back to win -- 22 of 60 since the LCS went to seven games in 1985.
Lose the first two games? Well... that becomes a much more difficult proposition.
In the LCS round since 1985, of the 22 teams that came back to win after losing Game 1, just three of them managed to do so after also dropping Game 2:
2004: Red Sox.