BOSTON -- Over the course of a baseball season, there are heartbreaking losses from time to time. But rarely are there losses as soul-crushing -- and quite possibly -- season-ending as the one the New York Yankees suffered Thursday night at Fenway Park.
In fact, this one was worse than that. This was a tear your heart out with your bare hands and grind it into the dirt below your heels kind of loss. As Yankees manager Joe Girardi said, "This one hurt."
In fact, it might have more than hurt. It might have killed.