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In the tight AL pennant race, the possibility of a four-way tie is eliminated as the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox both lose (5–1 to California and 6–0 to Cleveland, respectively). Minnesota now has a 91–69 won-lost record and Boston is 90–70, and the only games left for those two teams are two games against each other.
The 1967 Boston Red Sox season was the 67th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. ... as the AL pennant race went to the last game, ...
The 1967 World Series was the ... The Red Sox reached the World Series by emerging victorious from a dramatic four-team pennant race that revitalized interest in the ...
Even with the move, McAuliffe was selected for his third consecutive All Star team in 1967. [9] The 1967 season was memorable for the tight four-way pennant race between the Tigers, the Boston Red Sox, the Minnesota Twins, and the Chicago White Sox, with all four teams still in contention entering the final week of the season. [10]
Red Sox fans know 1967 as the season of the "Impossible Dream". The slogan refers to the hit song from the popular musical play "Man of La Mancha". 1967 saw one of the great pennant races in baseball history with four teams in the AL pennant race until almost the last game.
October 1 – The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant in one of the most memorable pennant races of all time with Boston (92–70) beating out the Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers by one game; Carl Yastrzemski wins the baseball's Triple Crown.
The 19th century Baltimore Orioles team won three National League pennants, one of three defunct teams to have won the league. The Detroit Wolverines won their only pennant in 1887, followed by a victory in the World's Championship Series. Italics represent a franchise that is defunct in Major League Baseball as of the 2023 season.
The Angels had been one of five contenders in the 1967 race until a disastrous, mid-August stretch saw them lose 12 out of 15 games and drop from 1 1 ⁄ 2 games behind to 8 1 ⁄ 2 lengths out of the league lead. [2] They finished 1967 at 84–77, but then slumped to losing marks in both 1968 (67–95) and 1969 (71–91).