Could this be it? Friday at Fenway and then...the void? A second loss at Chicago despite a reasonable showing by David Wells has left the Sox looking at the edge...again. This is getting to be a bad habit. The Boston Herald's photo of Well's after letting the homer take the game from 4-2 Boston to 5-4 Chicago says a lot. I think the Herald's take on the game is very fair:

The Red Sox are vulnerable and Ozzie Guillen knows it, so in Game 2 of the American League Division Series, the manager of the Chicago White Sox went for the kill. Guillen called upon his closer to start the eighth inning last night because he knows the Red Sox are hopeless if they do not score in bulk. In 2005, after all, the Red Sox are about as one-dimensional as any baseball team can be. Tony Graffanino's error? Oh, it was colossal, the kind of enormous misplay that can turn a series, let alone a game. That was especially true when David Wells surrendered a back-breaking, three-run home run to Tadahito Iguchi when even a single would have preserved the Red Sox' lead, which raises the question of how a home run ever can be considered an unearned run. But here's the problem: We know these Red Sox are going to make mistakes on the pitcher's mound. We know they cannot play defense. Unlike last postseason, when the Sox could beat teams in a variety of fashions, the 2005 Sox have to slug to win, and that simply did not happen in the two games at U.S. Cellular Field.