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Baseball Gets Rowdy.

This article focuses on the playoffs in Major League Baseball. Every October baseball comes home to its roots. Come the postseason, when runs and a resting pulse are at a premium, baseball rediscovers the beauty of the sacrifice bunt, the sublime tension of a low-scoring game and the urgent effort required by the brevity of a schedule blessed with those two magic words -- if necessary. In what has played out as the most riveting postseason since 1986, when the California Angels and Boston Red Sox each lost a series after they were within one strike of winning it, the 2003 playoffs featured 17 games decided by two runs or less among the 27 played through Monday, including eight that were decided in a team's last at bat. No matter your vantage point, the League Championship Series' (LCS) games in both leagues made for must-see TV. Take the game's two most accursed franchises, the three most ancient baseball cathedrals and the two most bitter rivals since Athens and Sparta, and what you get is 46% more people watching the LCS on television than tuned in last year. The Chicago Cubs were playing in a park built in 1914 while trying to win their first World Series since 1908, or five years after the Wright brothers' first flight. The Boston Red Sox were playing in a park built in 1912 while trying to win their first World Series since 1918, or two months before the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. And the New York Yankees, Boston's opponent, were playing in a park originally built in 1923 while trying to win their first World Series since 2000, which happens to be a drought of Biblical proportions on the Steinbrennerian calendar. INSET: Losing His Fastball--And More.
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