Don't think for one moment(that all) NY Yankees were trying to win games 4 and/or 5. With each extra game worth 212 million to Steinbrenner. That could be 500 million in revenue to bring the series back to NY. It is a calculated risk. NY is probably -400 to win one of the remaining games in NY. $$ talks....If NY had blown out Boston it would have literally killed all interest in the game. Now there is excitement..now there are commercials,tix sales..concessions..tv rights across the world....Almost an unwritten law that needed the series back in NY..It's all showbiz folks....