Three years ago Saturday, the Boston Red Sox changed their history forever by winning the World Series. Daisuke Matsuzaka was a star in Japan, Jacoby Ellsbury was a junior at Oregon State and Dustin Pedroia was aspiring to play for the Portland Sea Dogs.
The Colorado Rockies were a franchise without direction, a young team on a treadmill of irrelevance. They have changed that by winning the first pennant in franchise history, but they have found no answer for the reloaded Red Sox.
After Matt Herges struck out the side in the seventh, Matsui led off with a bunt single and stole second off Mike Timlin. Tulowitzki singled, and Hideki Okajima, a Game 2 standout, came in.
To fit him in the lineup, the Red Sox removed Drew from right, shifted Ellsbury there and put Coco Crisp in center. In the sixth, they had taken out Ortiz for Youkilis. They were in full run-prevention mode, but there was no preventing what happened next.
Okajima, whose first pitch in the majors was ripped for a homer in April, gave up a first-pitch, 437-foot rocket to Holliday over the center-field fence. The three-run blast was the first homer in the Series since Pedroia’s leadoff shot in Game 1, and it brought Colorado within a run, at 6-5.
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