Red Sox Clinch!

Here's How They Got Here

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April 23: Payton Tolle didn’t make the team out of camp, but was recalled and proved he was ready to stay, allowing one run while striking out 11 against the Yankees

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April 25-26: Hours after a 17-1 win in Baltimore, Alex Cora was fired due to his team’s slow start and Chad Tracy, named interim manager, led the team to a 5-3 win in debut the next day

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June 25: Airplane issues forced the team to land in Boston at 5 a.m. with a game against the Yankees that night. Caleb Durbin’s clutch homer started the team’s dramatic surge back from 14 games under .500

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June 28: Sonny Gray pitched 7 ⅓ no-hit innings and Jarren Duran's walk-off hit capped a three-run 10th to sweep the Yankees

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July 10: Another airplane annoyance forced the Sox to land just hours before a scheduled start of an eventual 6-2 win over Mets

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July 12: The Sox rallied back in the ninth to cap their first 9-0 road trip since 1977. A nine-game winning streak was a nice way to go into All-Star break

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July 18: A late-game, go-ahead homer by Wilyer Abreu electrified Fenway and led the Sox to a dramatic comeback win over the Rays to stretch the winning streak to 12 games

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July 22: WIth a 6-3 win in Game 1 of a doubleheader against Baltimore, the Red Sox tie a franchise record set by the ‘46 team with a 15-game winning streak

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Aug. 2: Hot as hot gets already, the Red Sox opened even more eyes when they completed a three-game sweep of the Dodgers with an 8-4 win on Sunday Night Baseball

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Aug. 6: The game that defined a 27-3 stretch that ended two days later, the Red Sox scored in the ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th to finally beat the White Sox, 12-11

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Sept. 3: Key trade acquisition Adley Rutschman puts wheels in motion for a four-game sweep by belting two homers in his first game back in Baltimore

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Sept. 13: Payton Tolle overpowered the Royals with an immaculate first inning, going almost exclusively with fastballs. And the grin on his face before the ninth pitch said it all

Sept. 20: After sitting 14 games below .500 at one point in the season, the Red Sox clinched a postseason spot that once seemed improbable