The Red Sox set a franchise record on Monday night by winning their 106th game of the season.
They are the first team to win as many as 106 games since the 2001 Mariners set the American League record with 116. They also clinched home field advantage through the entire postseason.
The 1912 Red Sox won 105 games back when teams played a 154-game schedule. Since the 162-game schedule was instituted in 1961, no Red Sox team had won 100 games until this year. The previous top totals came in: 1978 (99 wins), 2004 (98), and 1977 and 2013 (97).