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After appearing off the bench in the first two games of the 2018 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, Pederson played 15 innings of Game 3, hitting a solo home run against Rick Porcello in the third inning of an 18-inning, 3–2 Dodger triumph. [125] That was Los Angeles's only victory of the series, as they fell to the Red Sox in five ...
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.
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.
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That same night, Betts hit three home runs to lead the Red Sox to a 10–1 win over Trout's Los Angeles Angels. [75] It was the third three-homer game of his career, tying him with Ted Williams for the most in Red Sox history. [ 75 ]
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 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.