ALCS Update and Notes

Last night’s (4-3) Boston Red Sox win, which put them up three games to two in their ALCS vs the Detroit Tigers, marked the first time ever that the Red Sox won a game 5 road game in a (2-2) series.

Now Boston, about a six to five favorite in game six, have the potential last two games at their venerable Fenway Park home.

This is only the second time that the Red Sox will return home with a (3-2) series lead, the other being the 1912 World Series.

Then they lost both at New York’s Polo Grounds vs the New York Giants and at home, before winning the decisive game, with a two run rally in the bottom of the tenth inning.

That decisive win by the Boston Red Sox was the only time in baseball history, a team facing its last inning and trailing, rallied and clinched the World Series in that same potential last inning.

Fenway Park