Red Sox Complete Sweep Of Rockies For World Series Victory
Posted October 28, 2007 12:00 pm.
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The Boston Red Sox went 86 years without a World Series before finally snapping “The Curse” in 2004. With that curse gone, it took them just three years to win another one.
That’s what the Red Sox did in the first few minutes of Monday morning, as closer Jonathan Papelbon recorded the final five outs of a 4-3 Game 4 victory and dismissed the Cinderella Colorado Rockies before they could even win a game.
Dominant is the only word fit to describe the Red Sox, who improved to 8-0 in the World Series reaching back to the sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004. This time the result was the same, but the heroes were for the most part very different.
Jon Lester got the Game 4 win, despite hardly pitching during the regular season. He was helped in every way possible by a series MVP Mike Lowell who hit .333 during the four games, and the rest of a team that clearly established itself as the baseball’s upper crust this time around.
Ace and AL Cy Young favourite Josh Beckett dominated in Game 1, relievers Papelbon and Hideki Okajima closed out Game 2 and rookies Dustin Pedroia, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Jacoby Ellsbury starred in Game 3. It was a team effort, even as perennial all-stars Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz were unusually quiet.
Not that it was always easy. Boston needed to rally from a 3-1 series deficit against the Cleveland Indians in the American League Championship Series. Once they did however, the Rockies — who won a remarkable 21 of 22 games just to get to the final stage, were really no match.
Home runs by Brad Hawpe in the seventh inning and Garrett Atkins in the eighth provided some late inning drama, but a comeback just wasn’t in the cards. That was just fine with many on hand at Coors Field, some of who watched helplessly as their darlings bowed out, others who were transplanted Boston fans brazenly waving brooms in the thin mile-high air.
And so another season of Major League Baseball draws to a close. The Boston Red Sox are the 2007 World Series champions and nobody can take that away from them. At least not for five months.
The Boston Red Sox celebrate after winning Game Four by a score of the 4-3 to win the 2007 Major League Baseball World Series in a four game sweep of the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on October 28, 2007 in Denver , Colorado . (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
