This is baseball's postseason for you: As soon as you think it's figured out, the moment it appears as though the script is headed in a certain direction, something big, something truly grand happens. For the first 16 innings of the American League Championship Series, the team that scored more runs than any other club in the Majors during the regular season had been shut down, held to one measly tick on the scoreboard. One swing later, that all changed. One inning later, the series had changed & so had the October script.

With the Road to the World Series taking a couple of surprising twists Sunday night, the Red Sox pulled out a victory that simply saved their season, sending the ALCS back to Detroit a split, rather than leaving home swept in their own ballpark & hoping for a miracle on the road. Big Papi wasn't going to let that happen & in the end a Red Sox catcher brought out a bit of nostalgia, sending the Red Sox walking off with a postseason victory.

The script really was that simple, in the end. David Ortiz popped an eighth-inning grand slam, the latest ever to tie a game in the postseason & Jarrod Saltlamacchia pushed Boston to a 6-5 comeback victory over the Tigers in Game 2 of the ALCS with the first walk-off hit by a Red Sox catcher in postseason play since Carlton Fisk's famous homer to finish Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.