Aided by the Indians’ inconsistent play, the Boston Red Sox managed another come back and advanced to the World Series, where they will meet the Colorado Rockies. The Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 11-2 in the last and decisive game of the best-of-seven American League Championship Series.

The seventh and the eighth innings was the interval in which the game was decided as the Red Sox scored eight times at Boston's Fenway Park. The second baseman rookie Dustin Pedroia drove five runs and Kevin Youkilis added a two-run homer to help the Sox advance into the World Series.
 
The Red Sox won the last three games of the series against the Indians outscoring them 30-5 and becoming only the 11th team in Major League Baseball history to come back from a three-games-to-one deficit in a best-of-seven playoff series.

“We started to click at the right time. When your team has its back against the wall, it shows you what kind of ball club you have. Everybody kept believing.'' Pedroia said at the press conference after the game.

Japanese rookie Daisuke Matsuzaka threw for the first five innings to earn his first post-season victory, while his teammate Jonathan Papelbon pitched the last two innings to preserve the Japanese’s win.

The Sox singled in each of the first three innings against Jake Westbrook and took the 3-0 lead. The players who singled for Boston were: Manny Ramirez (his ground ball hit the edge of the infield grass and bounced over the head of Indians shortstop), Jason Varitek and Youkilis (scored on a sacrifice fly by Mike Lowell).

The Indians managed to score in the fourth inning on doubles by Travis Hafner and Ryan Garko, and cut Boston’s led at 3-2 on Grady Sizemore's sacrifice fly in the fifth.

The game ended in style as Coco Crisp managed a marvelous catch in deep right-centerfield, generating wild celebrations on the field as the sellout crowd roared from the stands.