Reuters: Sports News: Red Sox beat Tigers to reach World Series

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Red Sox beat Tigers to reach World Series Oct 20th 2013, 04:10 Share this Email Print Reprints Sun Oct 20, 2013 12:10am EDT (Reuters) - Shane Victorino belted a seventh-inning grand slam to put the Boston Red Sox into the World Series with a 5-2 victory over the visiting Detroit Tigers that clinched their American League Championship Series on Saturday. Victorino's blast turned a 2-1 deficit into a three-run lead and sent the Fenway faithful into a frenzy as the Hawaiian thumped his chest and roared in delight while rounding the bases. The Red Sox, who won the best-of-seven ALCS 4-2, will meet National League champions St. Louis for Major League Baseball's championship starting on Wednesday in Boston. The showdown will be a rematch of the 2004 Fall Classic, won by Boston in a four-game sweep that ended their 86-year championship drought. A tight pitchers' duel between Boston's Clay Buchholz and Detroit's Max Scherzer turned into a see-saw struggle as the Red Sox scored in the fifth for a 1-0 lead and the Tigers took a 2-1 lead in the sixth. The seventh belonged to Boston as Victorino, who had been a dismal 2-for-23 at the plate in the series, connected off reliever Jose Veras's third successive curve ball for the game-winning hit. It was the second grand slam for Boston in the series following an eighth-inning, bases-loaded roundtripper by David Ortiz in Game Two that erased a 5-1 deficit and helped the Red Sox to a 6-5 victory. Closer Koji Uehara registered the final out with a strikeout of Jose Iglesias and jumped into the arms of catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia as the celebrations began in Boston. (Writing by Larry Fine; Editing by Peter Rutherford) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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