In the best-of-five League Championship Series (ALCS), they defeated the Kansas City Royals in four games.
New York played home games at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx and was managed by Billy Martin, Dick Howser, and Bob Lemon. The two teams were tied after 162 games, leading to a one-game playoff, which the Yankees won. The team finished with a record of 100–63, finishing one game ahead of the Boston Red Sox to win their third American League East title. That’s a thin reed to hold onto when the best team is your archrival, when you had a 14-game lead after the All-Star break and you have to watch them celebrate on your home field.The 1978 New York Yankees season was the 76th season for the Yankees. The season was a noble effort, one that marked the Red Sox the second-best team in baseball (their 99 wins exceeded that of every other division winner and the Yanks went on to win the World Series) and the Sox had no quit in them. Bucky Dent hit a three-run homer into the screen to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the seventh and then a drama-packed final three frames ended with the Yanks holding on 5-4, with the tying run at third base. It would become one of the legendary battles in MLB history, but as was often the case prior to 2004, the Red Sox drew the short straw. On that Sunday, the Fenway Faithful got the good word that the Yanks lost in Cleveland, and that a one-game playoff would take place in Boston on Monday, October 2. The Red Sox began to chip back away at the Yankee lead and they caught the Yanks on the final day of the regular season. Things began to change the following week though. The Red Sox spiraled to 3.5 games back by September 16, losing two more in Yankee Stadium before rebounding on September 17 with a Sunday afternoon win in the Bronx behind Eckersley New York scorched Boston by a combined score of 42-9, won all four games and gave this series its place in baseball lore as “The Boston Massacre. They closed the lead to four games by the time a four-game set began in Boston on September 7-10. While the Sox cooled down, the Yanks were scorching hot. The Red Sox had become the smart-money pick to win the World Series by late July, but the same kind of injury problems that hit the Yankees in the first part of the schedule now hit Boston. Boston’s record hit an astonishing 62-28 in July and on the 19 th of that month their lead was nine games over the surprising Milwaukee Brewers, 12.5 over Earl Weaver’s Baltimore Orioles, and 14 over the New York Yankees, who were in turmoil and had fired manager Billy Martin and replaced him with Bob Lemon. With Remy and shortstop Rick Burleson shoring up both the middle infield and the top of the order, Jim Rice having a monster year that would eventually win him the MVP, future Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk behind the plate and the legendary Carl Yastrzemski still in good form, this team could score runs by the bushel.Įckersley won 20 games, Torrez was a solid #2, while holdovers from the 1975 pennant winning team, Luis Tiant and Bill Lee filled out the rotation in what was an era when teams relied on only four starters. It wasn’t until May 22 the Sox took the lead in the AL East and kept it for an extended period, but when they took off, this team was the hottest thing going.
In reality, Boston was decent, but not spectacular in April and on May 3 they were still 3.5 games behind the Detroit Tigers and also trailing the second-place Yankees. The lore of the 1978 Red Sox tells us they got off to a blazing start. And in 1978 they were both pretty good at what they did at second and in the starting rotation.
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Remy and Eckersley each had brilliant futures ahead of them in other areas-Remy as an analyst on the current Red Sox TV broadcast team, and Eckersley as a closer. Then the Red Sox made two more significant deals, acquiring second baseman Jerry Remy from the Angels and packaging starting pitcher Rick Wise into a deal with Cleveland that brought them Dennis Eckersley in return. READ ABOUT THE 1978 BASEBALL SEASONīoston raided the Bronx for free-agent starting pitcher Mike Torrez, who’d won two World Series games for New York in October. But the New York Yankees won 100 and won a World Series title, so in Boston that meant some changes were necessary. The 1978 Boston Red Sox were coming off a strong year in ’77, one in which they won 97 games.
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