LOS ANGELES – Quack, quack, cue the Duck Boats and shred the ticker tape. The Boston Red Sox have done it again. The franchise once synonymous with a curse now casts spells on everybody else.
Four World Series titles in 15 seasons? Behold. Boston is strong. Boston is stronger and strongest. No other franchise, not even the San Francisco Giants, have won four championships this century.
Chris Sale blasted an 84 m.p.h. ninth-inning slider past a flailing Manny Machado – a final indignity in a fall full of them for the fallen Oriole – and the Red Sox stormed the field after thoroughly dominating the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 114th World Series.