Are Red Sox fans superstitious enough to be concerned with lottery numbers?
If so, some might not like winning numbers from Monday’s Massachusetts State Lottery: 1-9-7-8, the year Bucky Dent helped end the Red Sox’s season with a homer in the AL East tiebreaker game at Fenway Park.
ESPN first noted the eerie coincidence. The Red Sox and Yankees square off at Fenway Park in the AL Wild Card Game on Tuesday evening.
Dent, of course, hit just four home runs that year, but he ripped a three-run homer in the seventh inning to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead.