![]() ![]() But both questionable groups didn’t just avoid making mistakes in the playoffs they actively contributed to the team’s month-long cruise, often outperforming the very stars they appeared unable to support. No team in the last decade has won the title with so few playoff losses.Įntering October, Boston resembled a stars-and-scrubs roster, as its greatest flaws seemed to be a weaker supporting cast that didn’t quite complement the team’s MVP and Cy Young candidates and an unreliable bullpen that showed as early as Game 1 of the ALDS that it wasn’t so trustworthy. Particularly in the American League, the 2018 playoff field looked like a gantlet of superteams, but Boston powered through that field without ever facing an elimination game or - Craig Kimbrel’s ninth-inning escapades against the Yankees aside - ever coming particularly close to one. PT on October 28, 2018, 14 years and one day after the Red Sox quenched their 86-year World Series drought, in front of a massive contingent of invading, red-clad fans at Dodger Stadium, they won their fourth championship of this century alone.ĭid the Dodgers’ World Series Window Just Close? Clayton Kershaw’s October Misery Has Become a Defining Part of His Legacy David Price Holds the Legacy Trump Card NowĪnd the Red Sox didn’t just survive those series they crushed three consecutive opponents, amassing an 11–3 record against the 100-win Yankees, 103-win Astros, and should-have-been-100-plus-win Dodgers. Boston took an early lead on a first-inning Steve Pearce home run against Clayton Kershaw and never relented, and at 8:17 p.m. Fool us once, shame on us fool us a third time, and the Red Sox grab the trophy and stake their claim as one of the best teams in history.Ĭompared with the 18-inning nonsense of Game 3 and Boston’s raucous comeback in the late innings of Game 4, the title-clinching, 5–1 Game 5 win Sunday was a bit of a snooze from a competitive perspective. And we thought the Dodgers had a chance to do the trick we were, again, wrong. We thought the Astros would surely reach the World Series again we were wrong. The baseball public thought the Yankees might upset Boston we were wrong. Perhaps the 108-win team should have been the World Series favorite all along. ![]()
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