You're right when you say that "anything can happen".

But "anything" happens far, far less frequently than what we can reasonably expect to happen, which makes baseball (along with every othe team sport) very predictable.

What makes a game like this so horrible for Yankee fans is that when you have a 7-run lead, you can expect, or "predict" that you will win maybe 98-99% of the time, and your prediction will be correct.

To me, once something that I expect to happen maybe 75% or more of the time does happen 75% or more of the time, I consider it to be fairly predictable.