The Red Dox beat the Dodgers for the 4th World Series title in 15 seasons
The Red Dox beat the Dodgers for the 4th World Series title in 15 seasons
The final release of Chris Sale for this giant from Boston triggered a celebration on the field of Dodger Stadium, among thousands of fans who went to California, and even outside Fenway Park at home.
The search is complete. Yes, these 2018 Red Sox are really great.
A team to remember from top to bottom. A season to savor from start to finish.
David Price proved his worth in the postseason, Steve Pearce hit two homers and Boston beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 on Sunday to finish a one-sided World Series in five games.
A franchise thwarted by decades of desperation before ending an 86-year championship drought in 2004, the Red Sox have become the century's baseball team with four titles in 15 seasons.
"See all these grown men there, acting like children, that's what it's about," Price said after throwing the three-hitter in the eighth inning in the short break. "That's why I came to Boston."
After losing the day of the opening, Alex Cora's team had a 17-2 start and a record 108 victories at the club, then went 11-3 in the postseason, dispatching the New York Yankees to 100. victories and 103 defending champion and defender Houston Astros in the playoffs. Cora, a Boston champion player in 2007, became the first Puerto Rican manager to win a title and only the fifth rookie captain in general.
"I do not know where we are in history and all that," said Dave Dombrowski, president of baseball operations for the club. "If someone said that you are going to win 119 games and lose 57, we will never, never understand."
Pearce hit a two-run homer in Clayton Kershaw's sixth pitch. The solo homers of Mookie Betts in the sixth inning and J.D. Martinez in the seventh calmed down the Los Angeles crowd. Pearce added a solo trip to Pedro Báez in the eighth, and then the MVP of the series was selected after the game.
"Best feeling in my life," said Pearce.
A Toronto acquisition in June, Pearce had three homers and seven RBIs in the last two games. Thousands of Boston fans stayed on the side of the stadium's first base long after the final outing, shouting "Let's go to the Red Sox!" and singing "Dulce Caroline".
Of course, they also let out some words of choice about the Yankees rivals.
"I never knew there were so many Red Sox fans here," Martinez said.
The families of the players, many of them dressed in red, gathered in the field to join the celebration, some with babies and others watching the children running in the gardens with joy.
"This is the best Red Sox team in history," proclaimed owner John Henry after receiving the Series trophy.
After losing to Houston in Game 7 last year for the same score of 5-1, the Dodgers became the first team to be ousted on their playing field in the consecutive World Series since the New York Giants by the New York Yankees. at the Polo Grounds in 1936 and 37. Los Angeles remains without a championship since 1988.
"We are facing a very good baseball club, and too much for us," said manager Dave Roberts, who played for the Boston champions in 2004.
Boston outscored the Dodgers 28-16 and had a slightly better batting average, from .222 to .180. But the Red Sox managed to bat opportunely and won their ninth title, tying the A's in third place behind the Yankees (27) and the Cardinals (11).
All that stood between the Red Sox and a sweep was a loss of 18 innings in Game 3, the longest game in the World Series. They lost 4-0 in the seventh inning of Game 4 when Sale rose from the dugout bench for a fiery, profane and motivating tirade, and his teammates woke up in time for a 9-6 triumph.
Boston was never lost in Game 5.
"I did not say anything that nobody knew," explained Sale. "Just gathering the troops and letting them know, we are the best team on the planet, and to start playing like that."
Price, 33, winner of the Cy Young Award in 2012, pitched for a long time under the shadow of October thanks to his success in the regular season. He was 0-9 in 11 postseason starts before defeating Astros ace Justin Verlander in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. The southpaw won his third consecutive start on Sunday and became the first pitcher to beat the Cy Young winners in the LCS and World Series finals in the same year.
"I've been through a lot in three years since I came here, but this is why I came here," said Price, who like Kershaw can opt for his contract in the coming days and become a free agent.
After allowing two runs in six innings to win Game 2 last Wednesday, Price had two outs in the ninth inning of Friday's marathon game. He became the first to jump into the eighth inning of a Series game on a day off from Bob Turley of the Yankees in 1957.
"Everyone who hates, it's time to keep quiet and show respect to man," said Martinez.
Price gave up a home run to David Freese on his first pitch, then allowed just two more hits, the last triple to Freese that Martinez lost in the twilight of the third inning and dropped behind him on the right field warning track. Price struck out five and walked two, retiring 14 in a row before a walk out to Chris Taylor in the eighth ended his night after 89 pitches. He hit his heart several times with the Red Sox fans behind the first base dugout as he walked to the bench.
Joe Kelly struck out three hitters in a row and Sale, originally scheduled to start Game 5, threw three more in the ninth. Sale finished throwing a slider past a Manny Machado, a lean 4 by 22 (.182) in the Series, and raised both arms. The Boston catcher, Christian Vázquez, ran out to jump over him with joy, and the dugout teammates and the bullpens followed him.
While Price rewrote his own October legacy, Kershaw could not do the same as he dropped to 1-4 with a 6.06 ERA in postseason elimination games. Sometimes afflicted with back pain, the 30-year-old lefty is no longer the dominant pitcher who won three Cy Young awards, his famous 12-to-6 ball now more than 10 to 4:30.
Kershaw allowed four runs and seven hits, three of them home runs, in seven innings. He's 9-10 with a 4.32 ERA in 30 postseason appearances, a big drop from his 153-69 record and 2.39 ERA during the regular season.
"It just hurts worse when you get to the end and you get second place," he said.
Kershaw started aggressively, throwing strikes in his first six pitches, and the Red Sox were ready.
Andrew Benintendi hit a one-out single and Pearce took a fastball down the middle of the plate and sent him 405 feet into the left-field pavilion.
While the crowd of 54,367 was stunned, Freese woke the fans in the bottom half. He led Price's first pitch of 402 feet to the opposite field and the right-field pavilion.
Betts hit a homer in a slider that stayed in the strike zone after going 0 for 13 in Los Angeles this weekend, the first postseason home run of his career came in his 87th at-bat. Martinez hit a home run in the seventh inning, driving a fastball into the center of the fastball.
By then, fans had begun planning for the April 9 opening against Toronto, when the Fenway championship flag will be lifted after Boston opens an 11-game trip to the West.
"It was not as easy as what people think," said Cora.
STAY AT THE VANGUARD
Boston went 7-1 on the road in the postseason and 10-0 overall by scoring first.
I'M STILL HERE
Shortstop Xander Bogaerts was the only active player in the Red Sox of his team in the 2013 championship.
SPEND IT TO DO IT
Boston is the first team with the highest payroll to win the title since the 2009 Yankees.
JUST AS LAST YEAR
Cora celebrated in the same field where he won a ring last year as a bench coach for the Astros.
The clubhouse's visiting manager, Mitch Poole, estimates that he ordered 263 bottles of champagne for the Red Sox at an estimated cost of $ 18,000.
"The visiting team always pays the bill," he said.
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