Red Sox 4, Rockies 3
For the second time in just four seasons, the Boston Red Sox swept their NL counterpart to win the World Series.
The Sox did nothing unusual to win Game 4, just good ol’ fashion pitching and timely hitting. Youngster John Lester pitched wonderfully for such a pressure-packed situation, limiting the Rockies to only three hits and no runs in 5.2 innings. Fellow rookie pitcher, Hideki Okajima, allowed Colorado to get back into the game by giving up a two-run Garrett Atkins dinger in the eighth, but stud closer Jonathan Papelbon eventually closed the door on the comeback. Offensively, Boston did nothing special. They got two RBI singles in the first and fifth innings from David Ortiz and Jason Varitek, respectively. Then got a long ball from Mike Lowell in the seventh and another from pinch hitter Bobby Kielty in the eighth. Four runs was all Lester and the pitching staff needed to secure a victory.
For the Rockies, the series was just never meant to be. Their effort in the postseason was remarkable, but they caught a hot Red Sox team with a ton of momentum. People are going to talk about the layoff, which certainly was an issue for Colorado. However, Boston flexed its muscles and in the end, there was too much power in both the Red Sox lineup and pitching staff for the Rockies to contend with for an entire seven game series.
