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The Boston Red Sox battered the Colorado Rockies 13-1 in the opening game of Major League Baseball's world series today.
Boston ended the National League champions' 10-game winning streak with a record-setting scoring spree.
Boston scored the most runs ever in a world series opener in support of starter Josh Beckett, who overpowered a rusty Rockies lineup coming off an eight-day layoff after sweeping Arizona in their league championship series.
Beckett, the MVP of the American League Championship Series which Boston won in seven games over the Cleveland Indians, gave up six hits and struck out nine in a dominant seven innings of work.
David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez both had three hits and drove in two runs and Dustin Pedroia homered to lead a relentless, 17-hit Boston attack that produced three runs in the first and built to a seven-run crescendo in the fifth.
The second game of the best-of-seven series will be tomorrow at Boston's Fenway Park before the championship shifts to Denver for the third game on Sunday (NZT).
- REUTERS
