![]() Second baseman Matt Carpenter said he and other players had spoken to Wong to make him understand “that was not the reason we lost the game. The Cardinals, then, were left to prop Wong back up Monday before Game 5. “Just got a little too far off, and the back foot slipped out.” The Red Sox are one victory from winning the 2013 World Series. “I’m aware of what’s going on,” Wong said. Closer Koji Uehara and catcher David Ross celebrate winning Game Five 3-1. Uehara, though, hadn’t made a throw to first base during the entire postseason, and caught him leaning the wrong way. Blast From Red Sox Past: Our Favorite Memories From 2013 World Series Run. A first-round draft pick in 2011 who played in just 32 regular season games, Wong said he was not trying to steal. He was, in fact, inconsolable, trying unsuccessfully to hold back tears at his locker during postgame interviews. “My foot slipped on me,” Wong told reporters late Sunday night. Louis Cardinals rookie Kolten Wong, who was nabbed by Boston closer Koji Uehara off first base to end Game 4 - with Cardinals slugger Carlos Beltran at the plate. LOUIS - Before Sunday night, no World Series game had ever ended with a runner being picked off. Please follow me on or follow me on Forbes.Ĭorrection: An earlier version of the story called Theo Epstein a Harvard grad. And he was sporting a badass beard before you were born. "But when you go to playoffs, you want me to go to war with.” Maybe so, Jonny, but let's remember that Bill James has three more World Series rings than Carl Yastrzemski. “There’s a lot of sabermetrics, there’s a lot of numbers and stuff. Louis Cardinals in a World Series that was as bizarre and entertaining as they get. FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal interviewed Jonny Gomes and asked him about the team's surprising success with him in the lineup (The video clip can be found in this link). (The Cardinals, it shall be noted have been one of the sabermetric stalwarts of the NL,and finished 4th in Beane Count this year.)Īll of which led to a strange strange moment in the post-game celebration. This year? The Red Sox were back to a solid fourth in the AL, behind only the As, Tigers, and Rays. Last year? Dead last in the American League. Louis Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6 on Wednesday night, locking up their third championship in the past 10 years and their first World Series clincher at Fenway Park since 1918. Louis Cardinals 1 97-65 Prev Game Next Game Monday, OctoStart Time: 7:08 p.m. During Epstein's tenure, the Red Sox were routinely in the top five. 2013 World Series Series Summary Boston Red Sox 3 97-65 Prev Game Next Game St. It was a quick and dirty yardstick of a team's sabermetric orthodoxy. Rob Neyer, Bill James' former assistant, and a stat guru in his own right, had came up with a metric that combined a team's walks, home runs, walks allowed, and home runs allowed into a descriptive stat called Beane Count. In short, exploiting the inefficiencies in baseball's talent market. ![]() For all the talk of a new era, the team continued to do the things that were the hallmark of most of Epstein's tenure-surrounding a core of homegrown talent, with cherry-picked veterans who would perform well in Fenway's challenging environment. Boston reversed the curse and won World Series in 20.Īnd while Epstein left to take over the Chicago Cubs, last year, new Red Sox GM Ben Cherrington had worked under Epstein.
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