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First playoff series win since 1917
First playoff sweep in team history
We advance to the AL Championship series for the first time since 1993.
WE SWEPT BOSTON - how did that happen?
OH! Picture this - Damaso Marte (who I STILL don't understand why the HELL he's on our playoff roster) LOADS THE BASES WITH NO OUTS in the bottom of the 6th. 4-3 White Sox. It looks like it's over.
Ozzie - pissed at home plate umpire Mark Wegner's ball-strike calls - brings in former starter El Duque, Orlando Hernandez - who gets out of the inning with a foul out, a pop fly, and finally a strikeout (a Full-count check-swing by Johnny Damon was ruled that he actually went through the check).
After that, El Duque had two scoreless innings while allowing only a two-out single to John Olerud in the eighth.
Sox Win. WHITE Sox Win. And Advance.
(Boxscore)
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