Posted at 7:01 p.m., Saturday, October 27, 2007
Red Sox beat Rockies, just a win away from Series title
By Bob Bensch
Bloomberg News Service
Boston opened the scoring with six runs in the top of the third inning at Coors Field in Denver. After the Rockies pulled within 6-5, the Red Sox scored three runs in the eighth and added another in the ninth.
Boston has a 3-0 lead in Major League Baseball's best-of- seven championship series and can complete the sweep tomorrow night in Denver. The Red Sox also swept St. Louis in winning the 2004 World Series.
Jacoby Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia, the first two hitters in the Boston lineup, combined for seven hits, four doubles, three runs scored and four runs batted in. Mike Lowell and winning pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka also drove in two runs each.
Matt Holliday hit a three-run homer for Colorado, which had scored just two runs in losing the first two games of the series in Boston.
