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The Red Sox also made and won two more World Series - in 2007, and 2018 against the Colorado Rockies and the Los Angeles Dodgers respectively. The Cardinals would return to the World Series in 2006 , in which they defeated the Detroit Tigers in five games, and in 2011 where they defeated the Texas Rangers in seven games.
The Red Sox became the first team since the 1991 Minnesota Twins to win the World Series a year after finishing in last place, and the second overall. The 2012 Red Sox's .426 winning percentage was the lowest for a team in a season prior to a World Series championship.
From 1912 to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. [1] The "Red Sox" name originates from the iconic uniform feature. They are sometimes nicknamed the "BoSox", a combination of "Boston" and "Sox" (as opposed to the "ChiSox"), the "Crimson Hose", and "the Olde Towne Team". [2] Most fans simply refer to them as the Sox.
Los Angeles earned a massive 44-42 win against the AFC’s No. 2 seed to climb into the No. 8 seed, just one game back of the Commanders (8-5), who are in the final wild-card slot.
The Los Angeles Rams inched closer to a playoff spot on Saturday, outlasting the Arizona Cardinals 13-9 after a last minute Akhello Witherspoon interception on Kyler Murray secured the win.
The current record for longest postseason game is Game 3 of the 2018 World Series between the Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers, which was also 18 innings but lasted seven hours and 20 minutes. Game 5 of the National League Championship Series began at 8:54 pm EST on the same night and was intended to be the second part of FOX's two-game telecast ...
The three-run homer was the only scoring the American League did that night as they lost 6–3. Yastrzemski and the Red Sox suffered another World Series loss in 1975, losing four games to three to the Cincinnati Reds. [29] He made the final out in Game 7 on a fly out to center, trailing by one run. [30]
The Los Angeles Dodgers, who last won a World Series in 1988 over the Oakland Athletics, made their second consecutive appearance, after losing to the Houston Astros in 2017. The two franchises faced each other in the 1916 World Series; the Red Sox won the series in five games against the then-Brooklyn Robins. [5]