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| 1971 | Dick Williams is named the Associated Press American League Manager of the Year after guiding the A's to their first playoff appearance since the franchise faced the Cardinals in the 1931 Fall Classic. The 42-year-old skipper also copped the honor for piloting the Red Sox during the team's Impossible Dream season in 1967. |
| 1997 | The Expos trade future Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez to the Red Sox for minor league prospect Carl Pavano and a player to be named later (Tony Armas, December 18, 1997). During his seven seasons with Boston, the 25-year-old Dominican right-hander compiles an unworldly 117-37 (.760) record for his new team. |
| 1999 | The Yankees win their record 36th pennant when the team beats the Red Sox, 6-1, in Game 5 of the ALCS. Orlando Hernandez blanks Boston into the eighth inning, with Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada providing the offense punch with two-run round-trippers, respectively, in the first and ninth frames of the Fenway Park contest. |
| 2004 |
After 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 471 pitches, the Red Sox, staving off elimination, outlast the Yankees, 5-4, in Game 5 of the league championship. Boston's DH David Ortiz, who is the first player in baseball history to hit two walk-off home runs during the postseason, ends the longest game in ALCS history at 1:22 a.m. with a two-out single into center, scoring Johnny Damon from second in the 14th inning at Fenway Park.
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| 2008 | The Red Sox, scoring in each of the last three innings, erase a seven-run deficit in the seventh to beat the Rays, 8-7, in Game 5 of the ALCS. The Philadelphia A's, who rallied after trailing 8-0 to beat the Cubs, 10-8, in Game 4 of the 1929 World Series, are the only team to have made a bigger comeback in the postseason. |
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