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The 2013 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2013 postseason pitting the top-seeded Boston Red Sox against the third-seeded Detroit Tigers [1] for the American League pennant and the right to play in the 2013 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Red Sox won the series 4 games to 2.
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.
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]
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 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]
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 Red Sox have home-field advantage throughout the playoffs by winning the season series against Cleveland, five games to two, although both teams finished with 96–66 records. The Red Sox came back from a 3–1 deficit to defeat the Indians 4–3, outscoring them 30–5 over the final three games of the Series.
In Game 2, ignited by a two-run RBI single from Manny Ramirez, the Red Sox jumped out to an early 4-0 lead, but the White Sox put up five unanswered runs in the bottom of the fifth, capped off by a three-run home run from Tadahito Iguchi, to take a 2–0 series lead headed to Boston. Game 3 remained tied until the top of the sixth when Konerko ...