Playoff baseball is back! After a pair of dismal last place finishes left them on the outside looking in on the postseason, the Boston Red Sox have returned to the October stage.
This city has never been content with merely being invited to the party, so this is only the first step toward the ultimate goal of winning a championship. Before they can continue to the next phase of this quest, they first must get past the Cleveland Indians in the ALDS.
Boston stumbled in the final week of the regular season, dropping five of their last six games to surrender home-field advantage in the opening round.