Just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Red Sox will welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers to Fenway Park for the first game of the 144th edition of the World Series. And history will be made, one way or the other, for either a Red Sox team that won 108 regular season games or a Dodgers team […]
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World Series set for a cold start
BOSTON (AP) — Hooting and hollering, Chris Taylor and a couple of Dodgers took aim at the Green Monster. With their arms, not bats. Standing in left field, they kept throwing balls at a small, square space in the scoreboard, shouting every time a miss clanged off the metal letters. “I’ve got good aim!” Taylor […]
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Red Sox-Dodgers: Rich histories, but little crossover
Sandy Koufax, Jackie Robinson and the Boys of Summer. Ted Williams to Yaz and the Impossible Dream. Manny Ramirez. Pedro Martinez. Bill Buckner. Fenway Franks and Dodger Dogs. Ebbets Field, the Green Monster. “Sweet Caroline” or “I Love L.A.” Yet for all their rich history — dating back to Babe Ruth on the mound — […]
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Dodgers beat Brewers in Game 7, will face Red Sox in World Series
MILWAUKEE — Yasiel Puig and Cody Bellinger flexed their muscles. Chris Taylor flashed some leather. Then the Los Angeles Dodgers got a lift from ace Clayton Kershaw out of the bullpen to finish off the Milwaukee Brewers and return to the World Series. Puig broke open a tight game with a three-run homer in the […]
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Cora: MVP favorite Mookie Betts could play 2B for Red Sox in World Series
BOSTON — With a championship at stake, MVP favorite Mookie Betts is ready to do anything manager Alex Cora asks. Even if that means dusting off his infielder’s mitt. Cora said Saturday he may use the Gold Glove Award-winning right fielder at second base during the World Series, a move that would make space for […]
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Red Sox sail into World Series, set for ace Chris Sale’s return
HOUSTON — David Price, at last, looked like a postseason ace. Craig Kimbrel pitched a lockdown inning. And much-maligned Jackie Bradley Jr. became an MVP. Most everything went right for the Red Sox as they sailed into the World Series. Now the big question for Boston: Is everything all right with ace Chris Sale? “We’re […]
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Red Sox heading back to the World Series
HOUSTON — What a birthday present for rookie manager Alex Cora. He’s taking the Boston Red Sox back to the World Series. David Price put his postseason woes behind him, pitching the Red Sox past the defending champion Houston Astros 4-1 Thursday night in Game 5 of the AL Championship Series. Next stop for the […]
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Houston, we have a title — Astros beat Dodgers in Game 7
By Ben Walker AP Baseball Writer LOS ANGELES — From laughingstock to lift off. George Springer and the Houston Astros rocketed to the top of the baseball galaxy Wednesday night, winning the first World Series championship in franchise history by romping past the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7. Playing for a city still […]
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All-Star Game will no longer determine World Series home field
NEW YORK — The league that wins baseball’s All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which instead will go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record. The change was included in Major League Baseball’s tentative new collective bargaining agreement and disclosed early Thursday to The Associated Press by […]
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Wait is over! Cubs win first World Series in 108 years
CLEVELAND — The wait ‘til next year is finally over. The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions. Ending more than a century of flops, futility and frustration, the Cubs won their first title since 1908, outlasting the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in 10 innings of a Game 7 thriller early Thursday. Lovable losers for generations, the […]