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The 2018 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven series in Major League Baseball's 2018 postseason pitting the defending World Series champion and second-seeded Houston Astros against the overall #1 seed Boston Red Sox, for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2018 World Series.
The Astros and Red Sox won their respective series, to advance to the Championship Series. This is the first time since 1999 that all four ALDS participants from the previous year returned to the ALDS this year. The Red Sox went on to defeat the Astros in the ALCS, then win the 2018 World Series over the National League champion Los Angeles ...
MLB suspended A. J. Hinch and Astros' general manager Jeff Luhnow for one year; [25] the Astros fired Luhnow and Hinch the same day. Alex Cora , who was the Astros bench coach in 2017 and the Red Sox manager in 2018–2019, was also suspended for the 2020 season, but in a separate investigation of that team, and parted ways with that team a day ...
The Red Sox and Yankees had met 45 times in the previous two years, with Boston holding a 23–22 lead. The Red Sox held an 11–8 advantage over New York in 2004, but eight of the games were decided in one of the teams' final at-bats. Boston outscored New York, 106–105.
After his year long suspension ended, Cora was re-hired as the Red Sox' manager on November 6, 2020. [9] The only other postseason meeting between the Astros and Red Sox came during the 2017 American League Division Series, which was won by Houston in four games. The Astros won the season series with the Red Sox, 5–2. [10]
Alex Bregman and Yordan Alvarez hit back-to-back homer runs in the first inning and the Houston Astros continued their late-August surge with a 6-2 win over the Red Sox on Tuesday night. Mauricio ...
The Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees in the Wild Card Game, 6–2, to advance to the ALDS. [6] This was the third postseason matchup between the Red Sox and Rays. The previous meetings were the 2008 American League Championship Series (won by the Rays 4–3) and the 2013 American League Division Series (won by the Red Sox 3–1 ...
In the prior two seasons, the Astros had won the 2017 World Series, the franchise's first World Series championship, [19] and lost the 2018 American League Championship Series to the Boston Red Sox. [20] The Astros finished the 2019 regular season atop the American League West—their third consecutive division championship—with a 107–55 ...