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Boston ends Rockies' winning-streak and sweeps the World Series
BY TAJEN STOCKDALE
STATESMAN STAFF WRITER
The Boston Red Sox defeated the Colorado Rockies, in four straight games, to win their second World Series in four years, after failing to do so for the previous 86 years. The Rockies made one of the greatest runs in baseball history for an attempt at a World Championship. They won 14 of their final 15 regular season games to force a one game playoff against the Padres for the Wild Card spot in the National League. MVP-shoe-in Matt Holliday led the Rockies by homering, tripling and eventually, scoring the final run in that game, giving them the opportunity to play the Phillies.
Colorado, then, swept the Phillies and Diamondbacks. After winning 21 of 22 games played in 26 days, the Rockies sat idle for a week, while Boston and Cleveland ended their series, and lost any momentum they had gained during their streak.
Whether the Rockies had to sit that week or not, it seemed as though the Red Sox were going to dominate anyway. The Red Sox had the best record in baseball throughout the regular season. They looked just as good during the playoffs minus that three game stretch against Cleveland.
During the American League Championship Series (ALCS), the Sox fell to a 3-1 deficit against the Indians, only to be revived in the final three games of the series. Boston beat up on the Indians' top two pitchers and 19-game winners: C.C. Sabathia and Fausto Carmona.
Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Mike Lowell and Kevin Youkilis all homered during the series and led the Sox' offensive attack. Boston's offense was a great compliment to the three headed monster of Beckett-Matsuzaka-Schilling. Likely Cy Young Award winner Josh Beckett was immortal this postseason giving up only four earned runs in 30 innings pitched.
The one-time championship craved Bostonians have much to be excited about now. Having won two championships in the last four years, two more than the Yankees, one could argue the Red Sox are turning into their rivals. After all, they have mimicked the Yankees spending strategies over the past seven years. Now that the "curse of the Babe" has been lifted, it seems as though all the talent that the Sox put together can actually gel and play consistently, unlike what they were able to do throughout the 20th century.
