The Boston Red Sox have won the championship of Major League Baseball, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 to take the best-of-seven series four games to one. Pearce, 35, who had been acquired in a trade with the Toronto Blue Jays in June, posted a .333 batting average and a 1.167 slugging percentage in the World Series. This was the Boston's' ninth World Series title and the fourth since 2004, when the Red Sox ended an 86-year championship drought. Their first-year manager, Alex Cora, became just the fifth rookie manager to win a World Series and the first ever from Puerto Rico. Cora had already won a World Series ring as a bench coach with last year's champions, the Houston Astros.

Source: Daily News Egypt October 29, 2018 17:37 UTC