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		Red Sox Joyously Snap Three-Year Curse of the Damon By Tony ‘the Tiger’ Hayes October 28, 2007
	Boston Red Sox's Mike Lowell holds the MVP trophy after Boston defeated the Colorado Rockies in Game 4 to win the baseball World Series Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, at Coors Field in Denver. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
	After a terminally long three year drought, the Boston Red Sox are once again world champs, snapping the dreaded Curse of Johnny Damon once and for all. Believe it or not, Boston had not won a World Series title since Damon departed the club after the 2004 season to sign with the rival New York Yankees. But that all changed Sunday night, as the Red Sox beat the upstart Colorado Rockies X--X sweeping the National League champs out of the fall classic in four games. Boston third baseman Mike Lowell was named World Series MVP. Over the series Lowell, who went 2-for-4 with a solo homer tonight batted .400, with one homer and four RBI. To return to their world champion status, the Red Sox got super hot at the right time, whipping Cleveland in the final three games of the ALCS, after going down losing three of the first four games. As was the case in 2004 when the Sox swept St. Louis, Colorado never posted a win in the series – try as much as the did. After falling behind 3-0, the Rockies made it a ball game late when Brad Hawpe bonked a solo homer off reliever Manny Delcarmen in the seventh and Garrett Atkins clubbed a two-run homer off lefty Hideki Okajima in the eighth to make the score 4-3. But in from the hinterlands came Jonathon Papelbon and the ace closer slammed the door - surviving a momentary scare in the ninth when Jamey Carroll hit one to the wall in left with one out. Boston starter Jon Lester pitched very well to earn the win, going 5 and two-thirds innings shutout innings. A year ago Lester was a very sick man and was undergoing chemotherapy to battle lymphoma. Rockie starter Aaron Cook, who has had his own battles with life-threatening illness with a lung aneurism, also did very well, allowing three runs in six innings. The Red Sox scored in the first when rookie sensation Jacoby Ellsbury opened the game with a double (natch) and scored on a David Ortiz single. Boston scored again in the fifth when Lowell scored on a Jason Veritek single. Bobby Kielty sealed the game with a solo homer in the eighth.