The Boston Red Sox are going to the World Series. Here are three thoughts after Thursday night’s ALCS Game 5 at Houston’s Minute Maid Park, in which the Red Sox beat the Astros 4-1 to win the series four games to one.
DAVID PRICE: POSTSEASON WINNER!
You know the stats. Entering Thursday, Price—the 2012 AL Cy Young winner, the owner of a seven-year, $217 million contract—had made 11 postseason starts, and he had never recorded a victory in any of them. In fact, his team had ultimately won just one of those starts, in Game 2 of this ALCS.