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The 2010 Boston Red Sox season was the 110th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. With a record of 89 wins and 73 losses, the Red Sox finished third in the American League East, seven games behind the Tampa Bay Rays. The team failed to advance to the postseason for the first time since 2006.
The Rangers won the 2010 ALCS and faced the National League champion San Francisco Giants in the 2010 World Series, the franchise's first ever appearance in the World Series, but would go on to lose to the Giants in five games. [2] The series, the 41st in league history, began October 15 and ended on October 22.
From 1912 to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. [1] The "Red Sox" name originates from the iconic uniform feature. They are sometimes nicknamed the "BoSox", a combination of "Boston" and "Sox" (as opposed to the "ChiSox"), the "Crimson Hose", and "the Olde Towne Team". [2] Most fans simply refer to them as the Sox.
The Boston Red Sox extended their Fenway Park sellout streak to 631 games since beginning on May 15, 2003. The Texas Rangers won their first-ever franchise postseason game at home, postseason series, first American League Pennant, and first World Series appearance.
The Red Sox then found themselves with six- and seven-run wins at Fenway Park in Games 6 and 7 to win the American League title. The Red Sox faced a heavily favored New York Mets team that had won 108 games in the regular season in the 1986 World Series.
The Boston Red Sox drafted him in the second round in 2004. In 2007, he won the American League Rookie of the Year and helped the Red Sox to a World Series championship.
Garciappara fulfilled his "dream" of retiring as a Red Sox player after signing a one-day contract with Boston in 2010, per ESPN. The former shortstop has gone on to have a successful career as a ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]