Sunday, October 20, 2013
Victorino’s Slam Sends Red Sox to World Series
BOSTON — In 2004, they wore their hair long and projected a goofy, irreverent manner.
Nine years later, they are bearded, bedraggled and relentless, a formula that has carried the Boston Red Soxback to the World Series.
The Red Sox are American League champions again, a title they earned with a dramatic 5-2 victory over Detroit in Game 6 of the league championship series Saturday night, mostly because of another grand slam off the Tigers’ suspect bullpen.
With Boston trailing by a run with one out in the seventh inning, Shane Victorino hit a blast off relief pitcher Jose Veras for the second grand slam of his postseason career. And for the fourth time in their storied history, and the second time in 10 seasons, the Red Sox will meet the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, completing a remarkable one-year transformation from worst to first in the American League.
The World Series will begin at Fenway Park on Wednesday
“Certainly, we hoped and prayed for it,” said the Red Sox’ chief executive and president, Larry Lucchino, who was on hand in St. Louis in 2004 when Boston won its first title in 86 years. “But we didn’t specifically plan for this. We never thought we could come so far so fast. We just wanted to get going in the right direction.”
That direction was up, out and over the wall, off the bat of the slumping Victorino.
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Author: By DAVID WALDSTEIN
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