The Odds Of The Red Sox Collapsing The Way They Did Were Approximately 1 In 287 Million

On Wednesday night, the Rays were down 7-0 going into the 8th inning and the Red Sox were up 3-2 at the time of the rain delay (in the bottom of the 7th inning). Some guy named Nate Silver figured that the probability of the sequence of events occurring the way they did on Wednesday night were 1 in 278 million.

I not going to get into the math (click here for an explanation on Nate Silver blog) but I will tell you this: when the odds of something happening are 1 in 278 million and it actually happens, there’s a good chance that there is something else at play. Maybe like, I dunno, divine intervention. Im say saying, maybe there really are baseball gods.