Ground rule double dooms Tampa Bay in ALDS Game 4 loss.

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Ground rule double dooms Tampa Bay in ALDS Game 4 loss.
For nearly a century, Fenway Park's quirky dimensions and funky ground rules haunted the home team more than anyone.
Yet since the Boston Red Sox snapped an 86-year championship drought in 2004, fate has seemingly bedeviled the visitors more often.
Sunday night, it was the Tampa Bay Rays departing the Fens stunned by a bad bounce and an ironclad ruling that went against them.
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It seemed they'd taken control of the pivotal Game 3 of their American League Division Series when Kevin Kiermaier smoked a two-out double to the right field warning track with two out in the 13th inning.
Yandy Diaz was running on the play, and was just a step or two from third base as the ball struck the warning track, the wall, and spun back to ricochet off Boston right fielder Hunter Renfroe.
And over the wall.
Diaz crossed home.

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