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The 1967 Boston Red Sox season was the 67th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished first in the American League (AL) with a record of 92 wins and 70 losses. The team then faced the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals in the 1967 World Series, which the Red Sox lost in seven games.
The 1967 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1967 season. The 64th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals .
The 38-year-old Howard will play a part in the Red Sox winning the 1967 American League pennant. August 8 – Johnny Callison's two-out single in the tenth inning scores John Briggs from third base and gives the Philadelphia Phillies a 5–4 win over the San Francisco Giants, extending the Phillies' winning streak to eight, their longest since ...
The Yankees also hold the record for most wins by a pennant-winning team, with their 1998 team winning 114 out of 162 games, [16] finishing 22 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. [17] The 1954 Cleveland Indians won the most games of any pennant winner under the pre-1969 system, winning 111 out of their 154 games [ 18 ] and finishing eight games ...
1967 was the season of the "Impossible Dream" for the Red Sox (referring to the hit song from the musical Man of La Mancha), who rebounded from a ninth-place finish a year before to win the American League pennant (their first since 1946) on the last day of the season. [19]
The 1967 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 10 to October 12, 1967. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox four games to three in the World Series , which was the first World Series appearance for the Red Sox in 21 years.
St. Louis defeated the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, bursting "The Impossible Dream" bubble of the latter team, which had won their first pennant in 21 years on the last day of the season. Bob Gibson won Games 1, 4 and 7 in the Series and was named Series MVP for a second time.
The drought was ended and the "curse" reversed in 2004, when the team won their sixth World Series championship. [3] Championships in 2007 and 2013 followed. Every home game from May 15, 2003, through April 10, 2013, was sold out—a span of 820 games over nearly ten years. [ 4 ]