Red Sox qualify for ALCS, beat Yankees in ALDS

NEW YORK – How could this 108-race machine built by the Red Sox be built in series?

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Judging by the joyous pile-up that has taken place at Yankee Stadium – the ultimate territory of the enemy – the start is on.

• Game ALCS 1: Saturday, 8:09 pm ET on TBS

This balanced Boston squad, led by rookie manager Alex Cora, avoided the elimination of the American Division Division League that had ruined the 2016 and 2017 seasons. The Sox pushed back a dangerous Yankees team (100 regular season wins) ) in an extremely stressful trough of the ninth inning and retained their 4-3 win in Game 4 of ALDS on Tuesday night.

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"As I say from the start, we are a full team and we are counting on everyone to win games," said Cora. "The last two games, if you think about it, it was fun to watch."

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Cora on sale, victory of the series against Yanks

The next stop will be AL Championship Series, which will include a match with the reigning World Series Champion, Astros, the Cora team served as coach last year in eliminating Boston as part of the SLD The first match will take place Saturday night at Fenway Park. This is the first time Boston has advanced so far since the 2013 World Series championship season.

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Cora gets ready for the Astros

"It's really great, because it's a situation in which we all know we won the division, we won 108 games but we have not been able to progress in the last two years "said Dave, president of the Red Sox's baseball operations. Dombrowski. "Taking this next step like this is a great step, we are not finished, we do not want to be finished, but you have to take that first step and we have not done it in a while."

Supported by a strong effort to leave Rick Porcello, a collaborative collaborative effort – which included Chris Sale – And early in the game, the Sox took a second game away on the road against the Yankees to avoid a fifth game win-taken.

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Dirty K's Hicks Complete A 1-2-3 8th

• A scoreless sale for the eighth round

"It's good to pass the first round, that's for sure, absolutely," said Porcello, who won, his first in five playoff games. "I think we've been a good enough club to do this in the last three years, and this year we finally got it right."

There was all kinds of dramas in the bottom of the ninth inning when an unusually fragile Craig Kimbrel came with a 4-1 lead and gave life to the Yankees. Nearest market Aaron Judge and gave up one to Didi Gregorius, putting runners in first and second place with no one for the always dangerous Giancarlo Stanton. Kimbrel hit Stanton, but he walked Luke Voit and hit Neil Walker to force in a race. Gary Sanchez strikes in the center left of Yankee Stadium on a very high flying ball anticipating a grand slam, but the ball is dead on the alert track and fell into the glove of Andrew Benintendi.

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: The Red Sox remain in 9th position to join the ALCS

"Well, it was a bit exciting at the end," Kimbrel said. "We have [a three-run lead] there, and the goal is to get out of the field with a win, and we were able to do it. Got a big exit from Stanton and 3-2 [pitch] for Sanchez was pretty nerve-wracking, but it allowed us to go out on the second outing, and we managed to get through it. "

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The series ends on a slow roll to the third by Gleyber Torres, on which Eduardo Nunez make a bang-bang play to go out first. The Yankees challenged the call, briefly delaying the Boston celebration, but the release was confirmed and the Red Sox survived and advanced.

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"It was exciting," Porcello said. "It's the baseball 2018, you have to wait for the resumption." That did not stop our celebration, we felt really good about it. "

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Porcello launches 5 rounds of ball in one heat

Porcello amassed a lot of points early by holding the Bombers on four hits, while delivering 65 shots in five innings. The veteran baseball player also got two big rounds of relief in the first game, while the pen seemed about to break.

Video: The MLB match tonight during the release of Porcello as part of the ALDS program

"With our office and everything that was going on in the game, you do not think [about pitch count]"You think of the number of outs we need to win, and that's all," Porcello said.

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This time, Cora went straight to her most powerful installation man, Matt Barnes, who cut the dangerous section 2-3-4 (Judge, Gregorius and Stanton) from the formation for a sixth shutdown. Ryan Brasier smothered New York in the seventh.

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Brazier finishes 1-2-3 7th inning

Before the match, Cora had qualified the chances of launching Sale's game 4 "very thin". Maybe the manager was just talking about Sale's setting.

Video: MLB tonight about Chris Sale's emergency exit in Game 4

:: Calendar and results of the ALDS program ::

Ace smothered the Yankees in an eighth inning, ending with the freeze Aaron Hicks for the three strike on a nasty slider. Sale has been pushing for deadlines since the Red Sox arrived in New York on Sunday.

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"He's been talking about it for three days already," said Cora. "In the seventh, we met, [pitching coach] Dana [LeVangie], [bench coach] Ron [Roenicke] and myself. We have already discussed with the training staff to find out when he was ready to enter. He was in the house, but it was a bit of a day. Everyone was on board. I even shouted at the dugout: "Hey, we're all in. He's coming in."

The sale took advantage of the moment.

"It was the first thing I said to AC when I arrived at the clubhouse today, and I told him I wanted the ball at some point," Sale said. "I told him and I left, and he started laughing, I do not know if it was a good thing or a bad thing, but I have the impression that it worked. "

For the second consecutive night, the Red Sox broke out first, this time against CC Sabathia. It started with a bit of luck, when Sabathia hit Benintendi in the first throw of the third inning. Steve Pearce followed by a single in the middle and Benintendi ran in third place. J.D. Martinez got the first round of the game at home on a bag flying deep in the center. With two outs, Ian Kinsler hit a hot lining over the left field player's head Brett Gardner for a double RBI. And Nunez has imposed himself 3-0 against the Red Sox when he launched a first cutter left for an RBI single, his first hit of the series.

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Kinsler and Nunez spark 3rd Red Sox game

Sabathia came out after three, and Yankees manager Aaron Boone went left-handed Zach Britton. Christian Vazquez He welcomed it with what looked like a harmless flyout right, but he was barely carried off into the stands for a solo tour, marking the end of a 69-ball drought at the receiver for dating. of June 26th.

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Vazquez Wins Home Solo Match

The Red Sox did not score after the fourth and they barely got away with it.

Video: The MLB tonight about the Yankees' choices in the third set

After surviving their rivals in the regular season to win the AL East, the Sox did it again when he counted the most in October.

Video: J.D. Martinez Joins MLB Tonight to Discuss ALDS Victory

"The team we just beat in this series is a phenomenal team – from start to finish it was a great team, they really have been," Barnes said. "And none of those games are easy, we are going to have a lot of years to fight this division with them, and beating such a team is difficult, and when you can win, it shows what kind of The team we have from start to finish, from the property to the coaching staff, to the players, we are very proud of it and we are very happy to move forward. "

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Barnes claims to have defeated Yankees in ALDS

Going forward was the sweetest sentence of two words that the Red Socks could possibly pronounce after their woes of the last two October.

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"I thought our playoff approach was a bit lacking – we just did not have the best approach last year," said John Henry, owner of Red Sox.

Regarding the following?

"It should be a whole series," said Henry. "I think we are ready."

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MOMENTS THAT COUNT
Porcello appears Hicks: The only major problem Porcello faced was at the bottom of the fifth. After a sacrificial volley from Gardner that raised the score to 4-1, the Yankees got Torres' first goal with two outs. Hicks worked for Porcello for a tough nine-goal game, but the Yankees leader eventually came to Kinsler in second place to end the threat.

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Porcello wins 9-length battle to finish 5th

"We had a three-point lead, a small porch on the right, a dangerous left-handed hitter," said Porcello. "For me, it was one of the biggest hits of the game, and I was able to support it and get it out."

HIS SMART
Winning first place was vital again for the Red Sox in Game 4. In 2018, the teams that scored first were 14-2, with the Indians taking both defeats. The Sox were 74-15 (0.831 percentage of victory) when they scored first in the regular season.

Video: Red Sox beats the Yankees to qualify for the ALCS

YOU MUST SEE THIS
While Mookie Betts and Jackie Bradley Jr. Benintendi is a strong and solid defender. To open the bottom of the third third, Benintendi dug the gap to center-left and made a nice catch to take extra bases to Torres. according to Statcast ™Torres had a 57% probability of success on the player.

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Benintendi wins 3rd place sprint

HE SAID
"Extremely [nerve-wracking]I think that's the best way to say it. In a game like this, your stomach moves the whole game. And it was very fast at the end of the game. It was one of those things, you just hope to publish it, and we were in a situation where it happened. Craig buckled up and finished his job. "- Dombrowski

MITEL REPLAY OF THE DAY
The Red Sox had a deferred bonus in the final game of the match. Nunez made a fantastic game on Torres' slow roll, but his shot at first base forced Pearce to go for him at first base. Grant Pearce the credit for hanging on the ball and keeping his foot on the bag. Torres was late to get to the base, but the Yankees challenged. Once the call confirmed, the Red Sox piled on top of each other to celebrate their accomplishment.

Video: BOS @ NYY Gm4: Nunez and Pearce come out final after review

FOLLOWING
Fenway Park will switch Saturday night when the Astros will play in the first match of the ALCS. It should be a great match up pitching between the real starters Sale and Justin Verlander. It will be a rematch of ALDS 'Match 1 last year, when Verlander and the Astros routed Sale and the Red Sox. The first launch is scheduled for 20:09. AND.