The Boston Red went into Game 5 of their series against the Cleveland Indians facing elimination down 3-1. They went in and in the early inning they blew the game open. They put up 12 runs and won 12-2. They went on after that in Game 6 back in Boston to put up double digits again. They took this game by the score of 13-3, another 10 run victory margin.
Boston and Cleveland went into game 7 last night with both their aces pitching. Matsusaka for Boston and Westbrook for Cleveland. They both entered the game with ERA's under 3.00. Boston jumped ahead 3-0 with 1 run in each of the first three innings. But in the fourth, the Indians got back into the game wit two doubles followed by a single and a sacrafice fly. Before you knew it, it was 3-2 game goin into the fourth. The next three innings it stayed scoreless and both teams were grinding out each inning.
In the 7th, Boston blew the game open wit a seven run inning and took the lead 10-2 goin into the top of the 8th. Indians put up a one, two, three inning. Boston then added two more in the 8th innign to make it 12-2 and Cleveland had one last shot at tieing the game. Clevland had a man on second and 2 outs when Kenny Lofton smacked a deep ball which Coco Crisp made a spectacular catch on. The game ended and Boston had won 12-2.
Boston is one of three teams to accomplish this feat. They are well known for making comebacks in playoff series and proved it to possible yet again. Boston is making there second world series appearance in three years and hope to have success again the second time.
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