Red Sox Tigers

The Boston Red Sox held on for a 4-3 win over the Detroit Tigers in Game 5 of the ALCS and are one win away from the World Series.  Mike Napoli homered as the Soxed jumped out to a 4-0 lead and held on for the win.  Jacoby Ellsbury and David Ross also drove in a run each for the Sox, who can close out the best-of-seven series with a win in Game Six on Saturday at Fenway Park...

Game four of the ALCS saw more offense than game three.  The tigers took advantage of Sox pitcher Jake Peavy in the second inning as Torii Hunter's two run double keyed a five run second.  Peavy allowed all seven runs in three plus innings for Boston...

It was late inning heroics for D.H. David Ortiz as he hit a game tying grand slam in the eighth as the Red Sox overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Tigers 6-5.  Jarrod Saltalamacchia won it with an RBI single in the ninth.  Clay Buchholz was tagged for five runs in less than six innings in the start, Koji Uehara pitched a scoreless top of the ninth for the victory...