Red Sox on uncanny streak that can continue vs. Yankees originally appeared on The Sporting News
The Boston Red Sox know how to get over the finish line.
In fact, they do that better than almost anyone in baseball history.
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And they’ll have another chance on Wednesday night. The Red Sox take a 1-0 series lead in a best-of-three clash with the New York Yankees into the Bronx with a chance to close it out in the AL Wild Card Round.
MLB Network’s Sarah Langs shared this stat:
“The Red Sox have won 8 straight games with a chance to clinch a postseason round entering today, the 2nd-longest such streak all-time (1973-90 Athletics, 9 straight).”
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Boston doesn’t always get to a series-clinching game. But when the Red Sox do, they clinch it.
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It’s uncanny and kind of unrelated from one year to the next.
But it also is a good omen for the Red Sox fan base, which certainly would like nothing more than knocking the Yankees out of the postseason on Wednesday night and not taking things to a stressful Game 3.
Those Oakland Athletics who hold the current record had their streak end in the World Series.
These Red Sox are still multiple rounds away from the World Series, so to get there would depend on getting the job done in a couple more clinching games, too.
But considering how Boston has done that so often, that might not be a big deal. The Red Sox get it done.
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