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Sunday, OCTOBER 28, 2018 The 114th World Series Boston Red Sox VS. Los Angeles Dodgers SUndaY, October 28, 2018 World Series GAME 5 - PostgaME Notes Dodger StadiUM, Los Angeles, CaliFornia BOSTON RED SOX 5, LOS ANGELES DODGERS 1 (BOS WINS 4-1) First Pitch: 5:17 p.m. Gametime Temperature: 72 degrees Tonight's Attendance: 54,367 Time of Game:3:00 PITCHING LINES BOSTON IP H R ER BB-I SO HR WP BF Pitches/Strikes David Price (W) 7.0 3 1 1 2-0 5 1 0 25 89/58 Joe Kelly 1.0 0 0 0 0-0 3 0 0 3 16/10 Chris Sale 1.0 0 0 0 0-0 3 0 0 3 15/11 LOS ANGELES IP H R ER BB-I SO HR WP BF Pitches/Strikes Clayton Kershaw (L) 7.0 7 4 4 0-0 5 3 0 27 92/66 Pedro Báez 1.0 1 1 1 0-0 1 1 0 4 15/11 Kenley Jansen 1.0 0 0 0 1-0 0 0 0 3 9/4 BOSTON WINS WORLD SERIES GAME 5 RESULTS • The Boston Red Sox have captured their ninth World Series title, • The Red Sox improved to 17-4 all-time in Game 5 of a Postseason and the team’s fourth since 2004 (also: 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, series, including 11-1 on the road. Boston has now won each of 1918, 2004, 2007, 2013). their last seven Game 5s overall, with the last loss coming in Game • The Red Sox are just the fourth team to win at least nine World Series in their history, joining the New York Yankees (27); St. Louis 5 of the 2003 ALCS. The Red Sox are now 9-2 in Game 5 of the Cardinals (11); and the Philadelphia/Oakland Athletics (9). Fall Classic, including 5-1 on the road. The Red Sox are now 2-0 • The Red Sox have now won four of their nine clinching games of this Postseason in Game 5. the World Series on the road, and this marks the first World-Series • The Dodgers dropped to 13-17 all-time in Game 5 of a Postseason clinching win away from Fenway since 2007 at Colorado. The others Series, including 7-9 at home. The Dodgers are now 6-12 in Game include 2004 at St. Louis and 1915 at Philadelphia. 5 of the Fall Classic, including 4-6 at home. Los Angeles is now 1-1 • Boston has now won the Fall Classic in each of their last four trips this Postseason in Game 5. to the series. It marks the fifth time that one franchise has won at • The Dodgers became the third team to lose the clinching game of least four consecutive trips to the World Series before losing in consecutive World Series on their home field, joining the Detroit the Fall Classic. The others include: Boston (five straight in 1903, Tigers (1907-09) and the New York Giants (1936-37). 1912, 1915-16, 1918); New York Yankees (eight straight in 1927-28, 1932, 1936-39, 1941); New York Yankees (seven straight in 1943, 1947, 1949-53); and New York Yankees (four straight in 1996, ALEX CORA 1998-2000). Other than Boston, only Pittsburgh and Cincinnati have active streaks of at least three consecutive winning trips to • Alex Cora became the seventh different manager to lead the Red the World Series. Sox to a World Championship, joining Jimmy Collins (1903), Jake Stahl (1912), Bill Carrigan (1915-16), Ed Barrow (1918), Terry STEVE PEARCE WINS 2018 WORLD SERIES MVP Francona (2004, 2007) and John Farrell (2013). • In addition, he joins Francona (2004), Barrow (1918) Stahl (1912) • According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Pearce is the first position and Farrell (2013) as the only skippers to win the World Series in player to win World Series MVP with 50-or-fewer regular season their first year at the helm of the Red Sox. games for the winning team in his career, at the time of the Fall Classic. • Cora becomes just the fifth rookie manager in MLB history to win the • Pearce also joined Donn Clendenon (WS MVP for 1969 Mets, World Series. The previous four were Bucky Harris (1924 Senators), played for Montreal earlier in season), as the only players since the Eddie Dyer (1946 Cardinals), Ralph Houk (1961 Yankees) and Bob WS MVP began being distributed in 1955 to play for multiple teams Brenly (2001 Diamondbacks). in the preceding regular season. • Pearce clubbed a two-run homer in the first-inning of tonight's COMFORTABLE AWAY FROM FENWAY game to propel Boston to a 2-0 lead. The homer was his third extra-base hit in a row, homering in the eighth inning and doubling • Following tonight's win, the Red Sox finished the 2018 Postseason in the ninth inning of last night's contest. with a 7-1 record on the road. This year's Red Sox are just the • Steve added a second home run in the top of the eighth inning, second Club in Major League history to win seven-or-more road becoming the fifth player in franchise history to log a multi-homer game in a Fall Classic game, joining Rico Petrocelli (1967), Hall of games in a single Postseason. The New York Yankees went a Famers Carl Yastrzemski (1967) and Harry Hooper (1915), as well perfect 8-0 en route to winning the 1996 Fall Classic. as Patsy Dougherty (1903). • Following the multi-homer effort, Pearce finished the 2018 Fall NEARLY PERFECT Classic with eight RBI, the second-most by a Red Sox player in a World Series behind only Dwight Evans, who plated nine in the • The Red Sox finished their Postseason with an 11-3 record, 1986 World Series. including wins in eight of their previous nine. Since the Division • Pearce became just the sixth player since 2000 to homer in Series format was introduced in 1995, this year's Boston Club is just consecutive Fall Classic road games, joining George Springer, the eighth to win the World Series with three losses-or-fewer. The Sean Casey, Barry Bonds, Reggie Sanders and Derek Jeter. Philadelphia Phillies were the last to accomplish the feat, doing so • Pearce became the fifth player in Red Sox history to hit three home runs in a single World Series, joining Dwight Evans (3), Larry during their World Series-winning 2008 campaign. Gardner (3), David Ortiz (3) and Yastrzemski (3), • It is the third time in franchise history that the Red Sox loss only • With home runs in consecutive games, he joined only Ortiz (Games three games en route to a Fall Classic victory. The Red Sox went 1-2, 2013) and Gardner (Games 3-4, 1916) as Red Sox to homer in 11-3 in both 2004 and 2007. consecutive games of a single World Series. Game 5 Postgame Notes - Sunday, October 28, 2018 SOX ATTACK EARLY FREESE GREAT IN DEFEAT • The Red Sox scored first en route to their 5-1 victory with a run in • First baseman Adam Freese clubbed a leadoff homer for the the second inning. With the win, Boston finished a perfect 10-0 this Dodgers on the first pitch he saw tonight. The homer was the third Postseason when scoring first. This year's Red Sox are just the lead-off round-tripper on a 0-0 since 2000, and the first since Chris second team in Postseason history to go a perfect 10-0 when scor- Taylor last year in Game 1. Alcides Escobar recorded an inside- ing first in a single Postseason, joining the 2004 Red Sox. Boston the-park homer on the first pitch he saw in Game 1o f the 2015 compiled a 74-15 (.831) record when doing so in the regular sea- World Series, and Derek Jeter homered on the first pitch of the son, which paced the Majors. game in Game 4 of the 2000 Fall Classic. • The leadoff homer was Freese's second of the Postseason, doing LEFTY VS. LEFTY so in Game 6 of the NLCS against the Milwaukee Brewers. Freese is just the third player in Postseason history to club multiple leadoff • Tonight's matchup featuring Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers and home runs in a single Postseason, joining Jimmy Rollins (2008) David Price of the Red Sox was the fourth lefty-lefty matchup in this and Angel Pagan (2012). year's Fall Classic. Only the 1973 World Series between the New • The Dodgers became the first Club in Postseason history to record York Mets and Oakland Athletics featured more than four lefty-lefty three leadoff homers in a single Postseason. In addition to Freese, matchups, establishing the Major League record with five in a single Joc Pederson led off Game 1 of the NLDS with a homer in the series. bottom of the first inning. • Freese added to his impressive game with a triple in the bottom THE PRICE IS RIGHT of the third inning. Adam, who logged a home run and triple in his memorable Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, became just the • Starting pitcher David Price tossed 7.0 innings of one-run ball with second player in World Series history to post two such games in a five strikeouts while allowing just three hits and a pair of walks. Fall Classic contest. Hall of Famer Paul Molitor accomplished the Price became just the 11th pitcher in World Series history to ever feat, doing so in Game 3 and 6 of the 1993 World Series.
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