COMMENTARY
Wednesday night had been set aside for a prospective Game 7 at Fenway Park against the Dodgers — but instead the Red Sox spent the early part of that day dodging beer cans from their perches atop duck boats as they rolled slowly through Boston.
October’s tour de force made its final stop at City Hall Plaza before baseball’s most hallowed month had even finished, a fitting conclusion for a team that appeared to be on a mission from the moment it reported to Fort Myers late last winter. They were the big leagues’ best from start to finish, and at basically every benchmark in between, and along the journey the contributions from up and down all over a motivated roster.