The 2004 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball’s 2004 season. It was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Boston Red Sox and the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals. The series was played from October 23 to 27, 2004, at Fenway Park and Busch Memorial Stadium, broadcast on Fox. The Red Sox’s World Series championship was their first since 1918.
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The 2004 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball’s 2004 season. It was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Boston Red Sox and the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals. The series was played from October 23 to 27, 2004, at Fenway Park and Busch Memorial Stadium, broadcast on Fox, and watched by an average of just under 25. 5 million viewers. The Red Sox’s World Series championship was their first since 1918. They became the third straight wild card team to win the World Series; the Anaheim Angels won in 2002 and the Florida Marlins won in 2003. In the 2013 World Series, the Red Sox also won, this time 4 games to 2. The Cardinals did not lead in any of the games in the series; Manny Ramírez was named the series’ Most Valuable Player. The New England Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVIII, making Boston the first city to have Super Bowl and World Series Championship teams in the same year since Pittsburgh in 1979. The Yankees won the game in the next inning to take an 8-game lead in the American League East. The game on July 1, in which they came back from a 3-run deficit to force extra innings, is best remembered for an incident in the 12th inning, when Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter made a catch on the run before hurling himself head-first into the stands. On July 31, the Sox traded shortstop Nomar Garciaparra to the Chicago Cubs after he had spent eight years with the team.
They acquired first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz for the second year in a row to earn a place in the post-season for a second year. They won Game 1 largely thanks to a 7th inning home run by David Ortiz, and went on to sweep the series. In Game 10, Vladimir Guerrero tied the game with a grand slam with a game winning home run in the 10th inning. The Sox won game 3, aided by seven shutout innings by Pedro Martínez, and won game four to secure the series in four games. In game one, Mark Bellhorn helped the Red Red Sox win with a home run, while starter Curt Schilling led the team to a game two victory by pitching six innings and allowing just one run. After trailing three games to none to the New York Yankees in the AL Championship Series, theRed Sox came back to win the series, advancing to their first World Series since 1986. The Cardinals made their first appearance in the World Series since 1987, and it was the first time they had been in the playoffs since 1987. During the off-season, the team hired Terry Francona as their new manager. They also signed Keith Foulke as their closer and traded for Curt Schillings as a starting pitcher. The team won the AL wild card to earn theirs. They had lost in the previous season’s American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees.
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