The Tampa Bay Rays will be taking on the Boston Red Sox for the American League Championship. B. J. Upton hit two Home runs last night and Andy Sonnanstine pitched well for 5 1/2 innings and the Rays beat the White Sox 6-2. This is one of the most remarkable turn-arounds in baseball.For you soccer fans out there the Rays had the worst record in baseball last year.
In the split second after Grant Balfour's pitch sailed past Ken Griffey's bat and into Dioner Navarro's glove for the final out, and before the massive pileup formed around the mound, the sound of the Rays' AL Division Series-clinching victory over the White Sox was stunning silence. As if it were collective disbelief. But onward the amazing Rays very much go, into the American League Championship Series, starting Friday against the Red Sox at the Trop, just four wins from the World Series, and another four from a world championship. "Somebody just said it's eight more wins, and that's the first time I heard that," principal owner Stuart Sternberg said, on the fringe of the clubhouse mayhem.
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