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Home > Baseball > World Series History > (2004) Boston 4, St.Louis 0
(2004) Boston 4, St.Louis 0
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. It is a popular game in North America, parts of Latin America, the Caribbean and East Asia. The modern game initially developed in the United States from an early bat-and-ball game called rounders, and now it has become the national sport of United States. The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball. The World Series is played between the American League and National League champions and the Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff.
Behind a dominant, three-hit effort by Derek Lowe, the Red Sox completed their World Series sweep of the Cardinals, winning their first title since 1918. Johnny Damon's first-inning home run started the scoring for Boston, and Trot Nixon hit a two-run double in the third. Manny Ramirez was named series MVP, the Most Valuable Player.
The entire culture of the Boston Red Sox changed Wednesday night at Busch Stadium, as the tradition-laden franchise carted home its sixth World Series championship, but first since 1918. The Sox completed their four-game sweep of the Cardinals with a 3-0 victory in game 4.
They capped it with Derek Lowe. His seven innings, three hits, one walk, four strikeouts pitching made up a phenomenal game. In fact, Lowe, who earned the victory in relief of game 3 of the Division Series, was the winning pitcher in all three of Boston's postseason clinchers. The Cardinals didn't even take a single lead in this Fall Classic. The Red Sox became the fourth team in history to never trail during the World Series and they became the first to do so since the 1989 Oakland Athletics.
The Boston pitching staff was masterful in the final three games of the series, holding the normally potent Cardinals to three runs over 27 innings. The Sox wasted even less time than usual as sparkplug Damon ripped the fourth pitch of the game over the wall in right-center. With Lowe sharp throughout his 85-pitch performance, the Sox tacked on to their lead against St. Louis. The final World Series made a sheer relief and joy for all of New England and everyone out there who has been rooting for the Red Sox the last 86 years enjoyed as much as the players.
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