ALCS Game 7 : Will It Be BoSox or The Tribe?

The moment J.D. Drew sent that scorcher over the Green Monster, I knew that we would return to Fenway Park for an ALCS Game 7 tonight. The Cleveland Indians surrendered meekly as a pumped up Boston Red Sox team bulldozed their way through the Tribe's ace pitchers to a deciding game.

“We needed tonight’s game, we needed a good performance for Schilling,” Drew said. “We got that, now we’re going to play in Game 7.”

Boston Red Sox got good performances from both Curt Schilling and J.D. Drew, the latter after a year-long slump that drew only derisory catcalls from the home fans. Have they done enough to ensure another return to the World Series? After a run that is now eeriely similar to their amazing run in 2004?

Boston must be supremely confident now - they've got home advantage, passionate fans, bats that are warming up again, and outscoring the Cleveland Indians by more than 20 runs since the top of the 4th inning in Game 5.

What they need to do now is get a rookie Daisuke Matsuzaka to overcome confidence issues and return to his commanding early season form. If they do that, a 2007 World Series surely beckons.

What of the comeback team of 2007, the Cleveland Indians?

Can they create history by extending their run and achieving a great triumph in a ballpark that could be their final stop for the season? Can Jake Westbrook silence the Sox bats and carry his team, something the top 2 in the Tribe pitching staff have not been doing since the postseason? Would the mistakes that have started to appear in their defensive play bring their downfall? Is Grady Sizemore the hero waiting in the wings?

We will only know when the dust has settled tonight in Fenway Park. My sneaking suspicion is that the Boston Red Sox are on their way to another World Series win. Not even the Colorado Rockies can gatecrash the party now.