Will Baseball Season End Tonight?

It's sure looking that way.

The Boston Red Sox have found just about every way to win so far in the 2007 World Series. They've had great pitching, great hitting, and even great hitting pitchers. Their superstars have played well, and their role players have played well. Their veterans have come through in the clutch, and so have their rookies. They've handed the Colorado Rockies more losses in the last 4 days than they'd had in the previous 39. And in case you're keeping track, the Sox haven't lost a World Series game in 21 years.

If the Rockies have any saving grace at this point, it's that rookie Jon Lester is trying to close out the series for the Sox against veteran Aaron Cook, at Coors Field. But if the World Series play of rookies Dustin Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Daisuke Matsuzaka is any indicator, it won't matter that Lester is still a freshman.

Let me be, not the first, to say this Boston team is going to be awfully good for an awfully long time.