![]() He became the first to pitch into the eighth inning of a Series game on one day of rest since the Yankees' Bob Turley in 1957. He won his third straight start Sunday and became the first pitcher to beat Cy Young winners in the finale of an LCS and the World Series in the same year.Īfter allowing two runs over six inning to win Game 2 last Wednesday, Price got two outs in the ninth inning of Friday's marathon game. He had been 0-9 in 11 postseason starts before defeating Astros ace Justin Verlander in the clinching Game 5 of the AL Championship Series. The 33-year-old Price, a Cy Young Award winner in 2012, long pitched under an October shadow cast by his regular-season success. They trailed 4-0 in the seventh inning of Game 4 when ace Chris Sale rose from the dugout bench for a fiery, profane, motivational rant and woke up for a 9-6 win. All that stood between the Red Sox and a sweep was an 18-inning loss in Game 3, the longest World Series game ever. He was named World Series MVP.Īfter losing to Houston in Game 7 last year by the same 5-1 score, the Dodgers became the first team defeated on its home field in consecutive World Series since the New York Giants by the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds in 1936 and '37.īoston won its ninth title, tying the Athletics for third-most behind the Yankees (27) and Cardinals (11). ![]() Pearce, a June acquisition from Toronto, had three homers and seven RBIs in the final two games of the Series. Martinez in the seventh quieted the Dodger Stadium crowd, and Pearce added a solo drive off Pedro Baez in the eighth. Solo homers by Mookie Betts in the sixth inning and J.D. Pearce hit a two-run homer on Clayton Kershaw's sixth pitch. Cora became the first manager from Puerto Rico to win a title and just the fifth rookie manager overall. ![]() Long downtrodden during decades of despair before ending an 86-year championship drought in 2004, the Red Sox have become baseball's team of the century with four titles in 15 seasons.Īlex Cora's team romped to a 17-2 start and a club-record 108 wins, then went 11-3 in the postseason, dispatching the 100-win New York Yankees and the 103-victory and defending champion Houston Astros in the playoffs. ![]() The Boston Red Sox really are that great.ĭavid Price proved his postseason mettle, Steve Pearce homered twice, and Boston beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 on Sunday to finish off a one-sided World Series in five games. ![]()
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