Houston tantalizingly close.

One strike away.

Kyle's home with another three, two.

That's hard hit the second.

The Astros are moving on to the American League Championship Series.

They come from behind to win it in four games, scoring two in the eighth and one in the nine.

The Astros are moving on.

The question is what the Red Sox are doing.

That's the question here going forward.

617-77-9-0-985.

We're going to open up the phone lines right away.

Basically post-game coverage, but more importantly, pre-offseason coverage is the way I would categorize it for the Red Sox, who were eliminated from the postseason again. Today, by the Houston Astros. Five to four was your final at Fenway Park. The Red Sox lose the series, three games to one. If you want to talk about the particulars in this game, we certainly can. But to me, there's a much bigger discussion here with the Red Sox that we are probably going to have for days, weeks, and months going forward. What do you do now? What do you do now to fix it and get to the next level?

Because the last two octobers, you've been bounced in the division series, and frankly,

you really haven't been all that close.

Last year you got swept.

This year you lost in four, and you can lament and talk about some of the specifics in

each of these series,

if you want, about how close they came.

But the bottom line is the Red Sox are 1 in 6 the last two octobers.

Their starting pitching has been terrible.

It certainly feels like they lack leadership.

They don't have power in the lineup.

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